Kal Penn profile
Actor profile

Kal Penn

23rd April 1977 Montclair, New Jersey, USA Acting

Kalpen Suresh Modi (born April 23, 1977) is an American actor, author, comedian, and former White House staff member in the Obama administration. He is best known for his role as Kumar Patel in the Harold & Kumar movie franchise. He is also known for his roles as Lawrence Kutner on the television program House, White House staffer Seth Wright on Designated Survivor, Kevin in How I Met Your Mother and Nikhil Ganguli in the film The Namesake (2006). In early 2009, Penn was offered the position of Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, which he accepted, necessitating his character Lawrence Kutner being written out of the TV series House. In 2020, Penn wrote a memoir called "You Can't Be Serious". While promoting this memoir, Penn announced that he and his boyfriend of 11 years, named Josh, were engaged

46 Movies 61 TV Shows 1 In Production 114 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Smile poster
Smile 23rd September 2022 as Dr. Morgan Desai
Sueno poster
Sueno 30th September 2005 as Raj
Clarice poster
Clarice 11th February 2021 as Shaan Tripathi
Industry poster
Industry 9th November 2020 as Jay 'Jonah' Atterbury
House poster
House 16th November 2004 as Lawrence Kutner
24 poster
24 6th November 2001 as Ahmed Amar
Angel poster
Angel 5th October 1999 as Young Man in Fez
ER poster
ER 19th September 1994 as Narajan
Trust Me, I'm a Doctor poster Coming soon
Trust Me, I'm a Doctor 16th October 2026 as Dr. Sandeep Kapoor