Kunal Nayyar
Biography
Kunal Nayyar is a British-American actor who was born in Hammersmith and grew up in New Delhi after his family returned to India. He moved to the United States in 1999 to study business at the University of Portland, where acting classes and school plays led him to pursue the craft, and he later earned a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from Temple University. Early work in American television ads and London stage plays preceded his breakout as astrophysicist Raj Koothrappali on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory, a role he played from 2007 to 2019. He voiced Vijay Patel on Sanjay and Craig and Guy Diamond in Trolls (2016), appeared in The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (2022), and was nominated for a British Academy Television Award for his performance as Sandeep Singh in Criminal: UK. His other credits include the off-Broadway play The Spoils and the documentary Beyond All Boundaries, which he produced.
45years old
Turns 46 on April 30in 211 days
- Born Hammersmith
- Star sign: TaurusThe sign runs April 20 to May 20
Movie Career
- Films
- 12
- Career span
- 10 years2014 to 2024
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Big break
Nayyar's agent heard about a scientist role in an upcoming CBS pilot and pushed him to audition, which led to his casting as astrophysicist Raj Koothrappali on The Big Bang Theory.
Big break
Nayyar first drew US attention playing an Indian exchange student eager to soak up American culture in the West Coast production of Rajiv Joseph's 2006 play Huck & Holden.
Behind the camera
In 2013, Nayyar produced a documentary titled Beyond All Boundaries. It follows three people in India and their love of cricket, including Sudhir, who rides his bike around the country to cheer on his team.
Beyond film
Nayyar played Kalyan, a Nepalese student rooming with the protagonist Ben, in the off-Broadway production of Jesse Eisenberg's The Spoils, which later moved to London's West End.
Kunal Nayyar movies on Netflix
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Walt Dohrn directed three of these films. Five actors appear in three of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
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Also two films together4 more actors
- Kenan ThompsonTrolls Band Together (2023) and Trolls World Tour (2020)
- Zooey DeschanelTrolls Band Together (2023) and Trolls (2016)
- Christopher Mintz-PlasseTrolls Band Together (2023) and Trolls (2016)
- Anderson .PaakTrolls Band Together (2023) and Trolls World Tour (2020)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
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