“discovered [his] own sexuality relatively late in life compared to many other people.”
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Kal Penn
Kalpen Suresh Modi, known professionally as Kal Penn, is an American actor, author, and former White House staff member in the Barack Obama administration.
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entertainment · American actor and civil servant (born 1977) · actor · film producer · film actor · television actor · politician · also Kal Penn, Kalpen Suresh Modi, Penn
Born 23 April 1977 · Q220536
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2026· 2 entries
“Almost as a joke to prove friends wrong, and half as an attempt to see if what I was told would work (that anglicized names appeal more to a white-dominated industry), I put”
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2023· 1 entry
Penn guest starred in the Netflix animated series Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
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2022· 1 entry
Was cast as Simon Choksi/Santa on The Santa Clauses, for which he received a nominations for the Outstanding Supporting Performance at the 2nd Children's and Family Emmy Awards
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2021· 1 entry
Penn was set to produce and star in the biopic Superfan which depicts the story of Nav Bhatia
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2020· 1 entry
Penn was cast as a lead on the 2021 CBS thriller drama series Clarice, a sequel to The Silence of the Lambs
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2019· 2 entries
Penn was cast in the main role of Garrett Modi on the NBC comedy Sunnyside and the series was ordered on May 6, 2019
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Penn portrayed Garrett Modi in the NBC sitcom series Sunnyside
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2017· 2 entries
Following a racist comment from a user on Penn's Twitter feed, Penn crowd-funded a fundraiser for refugees of the Syrian Civil War and raised $813,533
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Penn won the "MasterChef Celebrity Showdown" and donated the $25,000 cash prize to UNRWA, a United Nations relief and human development agency that supports Palestinian refugees
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2014· 3 entries
Penn served as the Master of Ceremonies for the White House Student Film Festival
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Penn was working on a graduate certificate in international security from Stanford University
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Was cast in Ravi Kumar's film Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain, a film about the Bhopal gas tragedy, considered by many to be the world's worst industrial disaster
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2013· 2 entries
Obama appointed Penn to serve on the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities
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Penn joined the cast of We Are Men
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2012· 1 entry
Hosted coverage of the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina
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2010· 1 entry
Following completion of A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
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2009· 1 entry
At "We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial"
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2008· 1 entry
Penn served as a visiting lecturer in Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania
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2007· 1 entry
And 2008 and a member of Obama's National Arts Policy Committee
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1977· 2 entries
Born 1977-04-23.
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To Gujarati immigrant parents from Gujarat, India
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