Biography for
Mindy Kaling More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

24 June 1979, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Birth Name

Vera Chokalingam

Height

5' 4" (1.63 m)

Trivia

Her middle name, Mindy, was taken from the TV show Mork and Mindy (1978) (TV). Her mother was pregnant with her in Nigeria and that was the only American show they got there. When she met Robin Williams and told him the story he didn't believe her.

Graduated from Dartmouth College, where she was a member of The Dog Day Players improv troupe, and where she also wrote a comic strip for the campus newspaper called 'Badly Drawn Girl'.

Graduated from Buckingham, Browne & Nichols, a private school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1997 along with Alison Folland.

Co-wrote the acclaimed play "Matt and Ben", a comedy about Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. She played the role of Ben.

Was the first female member of The Office (2005) (TV) writing staff when she began there at age 24.

Is close friends with Web analyst and actor David Harris, who briefly appears in her new comic memoir "Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)'.

Her mother Swati, an oby/gyn physician, once worked in the same Boston hospital with Ronald Krasinski, the internist father of her The Office (2005) (TV) co-star John Krasinski.

Personal Quotes

Well, all the guys want to have sex with me all the time. Every day I come to work it's nonstop sexual harassment. They had to have some people from General Electric come down and talk to us about it. There's a lawsuit that's about to happen. But other than that, it's been great. - on being one of only 2 female writers on a staff of 14 for "The Office" (2005)

I want it both ways. David Brent wants to run with the foxes and hunt with the hounds. And I definitely feel that way, too.

[from Twitter] My heart wants white jeans but my head says no. Kidney says go for it, spleen is ambivalent. Ovaries say no comment, rather rudely actually.