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Aasif Hakim Mandviwala, known professionally as Aasif Mandvi, 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.
Birth Name
Aasif Mandviwala
Born
Saturday, 05 March 1966
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Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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The Game Show Show | Self | 2023 |
The Magician's Elephant | The King (voice) / The King | 2023 |
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank | Ichiro / Ichiro (voice) | 2022 |
Crush | Coach Murray | 2022 |
Would I Lie to You | Self - Host / Self | 2022 |
Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11 | Self | 2021 |
My Name Is Pedro | Self | 2020 |
The Drew Barrymore Show | Self | 2020 |
Celebrity Game Face | Self | 2020 |
Human Capital | Godeep | 2020 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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The Game Show Show | Self | 2023 |
The Magician's Elephant | The King (voice) / The King | 2023 |
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank | Ichiro / Ichiro (voice) | 2022 |
Crush | Coach Murray | 2022 |
Would I Lie to You | Self - Host / Self | 2022 |
Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11 | Self | 2021 |
My Name Is Pedro | Self | 2020 |
The Drew Barrymore Show | Self | 2020 |
Celebrity Game Face | Self | 2020 |
Human Capital | Godeep | 2020 |
Mira, Royal Detective | Sahil / Luggage Porter / Steward | 2020 |
Ghostwriter | Bagheera | 2019 |
It Takes a Lunatic | Self | 2019 |
Evil | Ben Shakir | 2019 |
This Way Up | Vish | 2019 |
Drunk Parents | Nigel | 2019 |
Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook | Self | 2018 |
A Kid Like Jake | Darren | 2018 |
Explained | Self - Narrator | 2018 |
The Problem with Apu | Himself / Self | 2017 |
Room 104 | Mediator | 2017 |
A Series of Unfortunate Events | Uncle Monty / Dr. Montgomery Montgomery | 2017 |
Hollywood First Look | Self | 2017 |
Shut Eye | Pazhani 'Paz' Kapoor | 2016 |
Undecided: The Movie | Roger Ayeels | 2016 |
Celebs Have Issues | Self | 2016 |
Elena of Avalor | King Raja | 2016 |
Mother's Day | Russell | 2016 |
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self | 2015 |
The Brink | Rafiq Massoud | 2015 |
The Late Late Show with James Corden | Self - Guest / Self | 2015 |
Night of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together for Autism Programs | Himself / Self | 2015 |
Younger | Jay Malick | 2015 |
Halal in the Family | Aasif Qu'osby | 2015 |
Lennon or McCartney | Self - Actor / Self (voice) | 2014 |
Madam Secretary | Prince Yousif Obaid | 2014 |
Million Dollar Arm | Aash / Ash Vasudevan | 2014 |
Years of Living Dangerously | Self | 2014 |
Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | 2014 |
100 Monologues | Self - Performer | 2014 |
The Foursome | Guru Dada / Guy Sheridan | 2014 |
Us & Them | Dave | 2014 |
Gods Behaving Badly | Maxwell | 2013 |
The Muslims Are Coming! | Himself / Self | 2013 |
Celebrity Page | Self | 2013 |
TakePart Live | Self - Guest | 2013 |
The Internship | Mr. Chetty / Roger Chetty | 2013 |
Another Period | Parshwall | 2013 |
Movie 43 | Robert (segment "iBabe") | 2013 |
Premium Rush | Raj | 2012 |
Ruby Sparks | Cyrus Modi | 2012 |
Larry King Now | Self - Guest | 2012 |
PoliticKING with Larry King | Self - Guest | 2012 |
The Dictator | Doctor | 2012 |
The Understudy | Sarfras | 2012 |
Person of Interest | Sulaiman Khan | 2011 |
Dark Horse | Mahmoud | 2011 |
Big Morning Buzz Live | Self | 2011 |
Captain Jake and the Never Land Pirates | Pirate Pharaoh | 2011 |
Margin Call | Ramesh Shah | 2011 |
The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear | Self - Correspondent | 2010 |
The Talk | Self | 2010 |
Blue Bloods | Samar Charwell | 2010 |
It's Kind of a Funny Story | Dr. Mahmoud | 2010 |
The Last Airbender | Commander Zhao | 2010 |
Today's Special | Samir | 2009 |
Archer | Cornelius Varma | 2009 |
The Proposal | Bob Spaulding | 2009 |
Ghost Town | Dr. Prashar / Dr. Jahangir Prashar | 2008 |
Pretty Bird | Ted the Banker | 2008 |
Eavesdrop | Don | 2008 |
Peroxide Passion | Beaumond | 2008 |
Morning Joe | Self | 2007 |
Music and Lyrics | Khan | 2007 |
Jericho | Dr. Kenchy Dhuwalia | 2006 |
CollegeHumor Originals | Zack Chance | 2006 |
The Bedford Diaries | Kamil Sharif | 2006 |
Sorry, Haters | Hassan | 2006 |
Freedomland | Dr. Anil Chatterjee | 2006 |
Sleeper Cell | Khalid | 2005 |
The War Within | Abdul | 2005 |
Law & Order: Trial by Jury | Judge Samir Patel | 2005 |
Tanner on Tanner | Salim Barik / Salim | 2004 |
Spider-Man 2 | Mr. Aziz | 2004 |
Undermind | Shark / Roger | 2003 |
Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Himself | 2003 |
The 56th Annual Tony Awards | Self - Performer | 2002 |
Last Call with Carson Daly | Himself - Guest | 2002 |
The Mystic Masseur | Ganesh | 2001 |
Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Sateesh | 2001 |
3 A.M. | Singh | 2001 |
American Chai | Engineering Sam | 2001 |
Curb Your Enthusiasm | Man in Elevator | 2000 |
Welcome to New York | Doorman | 2000 |
Ed | Buyer | 2000 |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Dr. Leever | 2000 |
Deadline | Fasiq | 2000 |
ABCD | Ashok | 1999 |
Random Hearts | Electronics Store Salesman | 1999 |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Professor Husseini | 1999 |
Analyze This | Dr. Shulman | 1999 |
The Sopranos | Dr. Abu Bilal | 1999 |
Personals | Indian Guy | 1999 |
The Siege | Khalil Saleh | 1998 |
Sex and the City | Dmitri | 1998 |
Dellaventura | Aasif | 1997 |
Oz | Dr. Tariq Faraj | 1997 |
King of the Hill | Mike Patel | 1997 |
The Daily Show | Self - Correspondent / Self | 1996 |
Eddie | Mohammed | 1996 |
Nash Bridges | Aziz Kadim | 1996 |
Jake's Women | Driver | 1996 |
Die Hard with a Vengeance | Arab Cabbie | 1995 |
The Cosby Mysteries | Cabbie | 1994 |
ER | Manish | 1994 |
New York Undercover | Omar | 1994 |
Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Himself | 1993 |
Late Show with David Letterman | Himself | 1993 |
Law & Order | Technician / Peanut Vendor / Khan / Gulab Singh | 1990 |
No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers | Terrorist | 1990 |
Tanner '88 | 1988 | |
Miami Vice | Doorman | 1984 |
Producer Filmography
Title | Year |
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Would I Lie to You | 2022 |
The Brink | 2015 |
Halal in the Family | 2015 |