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Mindy Kaling
Mindy Kaling was June 24, 1979 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Kaling attended Dartmouth University where she she joined an improvisational group, wrote skits for an a capella group, and drew a comic strip for the student newspaper.
After college, Kaling and her former roommate Brenda Withers wrote a satirical play entitled Matt & Ben, with Kaling playing the part of Ben Affleck in 2002. As luck would have it, Greg Daniels (producer of The Office) was in the audience and very impressed. He hired her to join the writing staff of the NBC comedy, which aired from 2005 to 2013. In addition to writing, Kaling became a series regular as Kelly Kapoor.
The actress has also appeared in movies such as Ocean’s 8 and No Strings Attached. She starred in the sitcom The Mindy Project, which she also created and co-produced, from 2012 to 2017.
The Why Not Me? author is also co-creator, writer and executive producer of two hit teen shows, HBO Max’s The Sex Lives of College Girls, which debuted in 2021, and Netflix’s Never Have I Ever, which aired from 2020 to 2023.
Kaling is a single mom. She welcomed daughter Katherine in 2017 and son Spencer in 2020. She has not publicly confirmed the identity of their father.
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