Shelley Malil

Shelley Malil is an Indian-American former actor who was born in Kerala and came to the United States with his family in 1974. He acted in school plays and local theater competitions, and at eighteen he joined a summer stock troupe at the Granbury Opera House in Texas. After two years at New York's American Academy of Dramatic Arts he moved to Hollywood in 1995 and worked largely in supporting parts. His films include The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), for which the Associated Press listed him among the Top 10 Overlooked Performances of 2005, plus Collateral Damage (2002), Getting There (2002), My Favorite Martian (1999) and Columbus Day (2008). On television he appeared in Scrubs, Reba, NYPD Blue, The West Wing, The Jamie Foxx Show and ER, and he won a Clio Award and a Los Angeles Ovation Award as Best Featured Actor for playing Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream.