Kal Penn

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1977 age 0

   Born

2. 2004 age 27

   CreditHarold & Kumar Go to White Castle

3. 2005 age 28

   CreditSon of the Mask

4. 2006 age 29

   CreditSuperman Returns

5. 2007 age 30

   CreditEpic Movie

6. 2008 age 31

   CreditHarold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay

7. 2022 age 45

   CreditSmile

• JCJohn Cho5 titles
• BGBob Gunton3 titles
• TLTom Lenk3 titles
• JMJayma Mays3 titles
• EAEva Amurri3 titles
• RSRena Sofer3 titles
• NHNeil Patrick Harris3 titles
• TKTaran Killam3 titles
• TSTodd Stashwick3 titles
• RPRegis Philbin3 titles

• I have a greater appreciation for how change actually happens. If something could change with the flip of a switch, it would have been done before. By the same token, there's always going to be a bit of a disconnect. Whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, if you're under 35, you're for marriage equality, you want to raise the debt ceiling, and you want better access to health care and entrepreneurship. But the average age in the senate is 62 or 63. Like most people who turn on the news, I think, OK, the members of congress are out of touch.

  Kal Penn, CC BY-SA 4.0

• “I said, ‘This going to perhaps sound cheesy, but two of the things I love the most are making people laugh and America,’…I like patriotism. There is an underlying theme of patriotism in all of the Harold and Kumar movies for example. I love that feeling because it’s very much my sense of humor, which is sort of aspirational as opposed to cynical.

  Kal Penn, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I mean no disrespect to any of our current climate at all, but I have been an actor for almost two decades now, and this is a dream come true to be able to create a network comedy that just makes people laugh…What I love about comedy is that, like music, sports and food, it brings us all together.

  Kal Penn, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Through that process, I was just working on the outreach team, but because of that I was meeting people who were undocumented, people whose families were impacted by it, and obviously huge advocacy organizations. That stuff stays with you. It was, of course, the basis for some of the characters and some of their stories and the lives that they live…

  Kal Penn, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

United States

Languages

English

Years active

1998–

Education

Freehold Township High School, Howell High School, Stanford University, University of California, Los Angeles