Mindy Kaling is a Hollywood actress, comedian, film producer and writer. Mindy is best known for her roles in the American television series The Office and the film The 40 Year Old Virgin. She is also the creator of the TV series The Mindy Project, in which she plays the leading role. For her performances in various films and shows, Mindy has received a number of awards. For instance, as an actor and producer of The Mindy Project, Mindy Kaling won the Critics’ Choice Television Award and the Gracie Award, and The Office was nominated with The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series. The 35 year old Mindy is not only famous but also very rich.
Mindy Kaling Net Worth $15 Million
It is estimated that Mindy Kaling has a net worth of $15 million dollars. Mindy’s salary as an actor reaches $1.5 million. In addition, she earns large sums of money writing and producing various films and shows.
Vera Chokalingam, today known as Mindy Kaling, was born on June 24, 1979 in Cambridge, Massachusetts to a family of Indian immigrants. Mindy’s parents wanted her to receive the best education and always encouraged her to study hard. Mindy attended Buckingham Browne & Nichols School and later Dartmouth College, where she received a bachelor’s degree in playwriting. At Dartmouth College Mindy Kaling entered the life of comedy. There Mindy joined “The Dog Day Players” comedy troupe and also wrote in the comedy section of the college newspaper and humour magazine. Moreover, she worked on a radio show. Mindy completed her internship on the talk show Late Night with Conan O’Brien.
Mindy rose to prominence at 24 when she appeared in the American television series The Office. At first she was hired as a writer but later she was invited to play the role of Kelly Kapoor. In total Mindy starred in 174 episodes of The Office. Since the beginning of her career Mindy has appeared in a number of TV shows, such as Curb Your Enthusiasm. These roles allowed Mindy Kaling to build a large net worth. Mindy’s filmography includes a number of well known films. She starred in The 40 Year Old Virgin with Steve Carell, License to Wed with Robin Williams and John Krasinski, and No Strings Attached with Natalie Portman. She also played herself in the 2013 comedy This Is the End. Furthermore, as a voice actress Mindy Kaling voiced characters in the cartoons Despicable Me and Wreck-It Ralph. These involvements significantly increased Mindy Kaling net worth. Mindy is also a successful writer. When Mindy was in college, she started writing plays. Later she wrote many episodes of The Office and Saturday Night Live. In 2001 Mindy Kaling released a memoir “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”. All in all, Mindy Kaling has made a successful career in the entertainment business and has accumulated a $15 net worth through acting, producing, and writing. Mindy Kaling will also appear in the 2015 animated film Inside Out. It will undeniably increase Mindy’s net worth even more.
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy Series, Goodreads Choice Awards Best Humor, Glamour Award for Woman of the Year, Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy, Pe...
Nominations
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actress: Comedy, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, Teen Choice Award for Choice Comedian, Writers Guild of America Award for Television: New Series, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding A...
Movies
Ocean's Eight, Riley's First Date?, The Night Before, Inside Out, This Is the End, Wreck-It Ralph, The Five-Year Engagement, No Strings Attached, Despicable Me, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, License to Wed, Unaccompanied Minors, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, A Wrinkle in Time
TV Shows
The Mindy Project, The Office, The Office: Subtle Sexuality, The Office: The 3rd Floor, House Poor
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Most people want to ask about my size and how brave I am. I'm like, 'I'm not brave, I'm just not really skinny.'"
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I do not think stress is a legitimate topic of conversation, in public anyway. No one ever wants to hear how stressed out anyone else, because most of the time everyone is stressed out.
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As a kid it's adorable to have a gap in your teeth. But then, because of the shifting in my mouth, I started whistling through it, and as a 32-year-old woman, whistling while you speak in sort of annoying.
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[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.
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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.
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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)
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Fact
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Counts Fawlty Towers (1975) among some of her earliest comedic writing influences.
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Is of Indian-American descent.
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Mindy Kaling's mother was an ob-gyn doctor, inspiring many of the story lines in The Mindy Project (2012).
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One of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World (2013).
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Her mother Swati, an ob/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.
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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)'.
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Was the first female member of The Office (2005) (TV) writing staff when she began there at age 24.
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Co-wrote the acclaimed play "Matt and Ben", a comedy about Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. She played the role of Ben.
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Graduated from Buckingham, Browne & Nichols, a private school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1997 along with Alison Folland.
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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'.
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Her middle name, Mindy, was taken from the TV show, Mork & 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.
$15 Million
