Aasif Mandvi Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Aasif Mandvi Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Aasif Hakim Mandviwala (born March 5, 1966), known professionally as

Aasif Mandvi (/ˈÉ'Ë sɪf ˈmÉ'Ë ndvi/, AH-sif MAHND-vee), is a

British-American actor and comedian. He began appearing as an

occasional contributing correspondent on The Daily Show on August 9,

2006. On March 12, 2007, he was promoted to a regular correspondent.

He is the lead actor, co-writer and producer of the web series Halal

in the Family, which premiered on Funny or Die in 2015, and an actor,

writer and co-producer of the HBO comedy series The Brink. Mandvi is

also the author of the book No Land's Man. In June 2019, he was

awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree by the Macaulay

Honors College after delivering the commencement speech that year. He

currently appears in the role of Ben Shakir in the CBS psychological

drama Evil written and created by Robert and Michelle King.Mandvi was

born in Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra, India, to a Dawoodi Bohra

Muslim family. His family moved to England, settling, when he was a

year old, in the West Yorkshire city of Bradford. His father, Hakim,

who had originally come to work in textiles research at Bradford

University, later ran a corner shop, while his mother, Fatima, was a

nurse. Mandvi attended the independent Woodhouse Grove School, and he

identifies himself as a "working-class kid from Bradford". In the

early 80s, his father grew frustrated with Margaret Thatcher's Britain

and moved his family to Tampa, Florida, United States when Mandvi was

16.After graduating from the University of South Florida with a degree

in Theatre, Mandvi worked as a performer at Disney-MGM Studios at Walt

Disney World Resort. He later moved to New York City, where he began

appearing in off-Broadway productions. During this time, he was active

in the band Cowboys and Indian. He won an Obie Award for his

critically acclaimed one-man show Sakina's Restaurant.
Aasif Mandvi Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


Share this

Share/Bookmark

SUBSCRIBE OUR NEWSLETTER

Join us for free and get valuable content delivered right through your inbox.



Related Post

Newer Post Older Post Home