Aasif Mandvi
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Mandvi at the 2010 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
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Aasif Hakim Mandviwala March 5, 1966 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Occupation | Actor, comedian, writer |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Website | Official website |
Aasif Hakim Mandviwala (born March 5, 1966), known professionally as Aasif Mandvi (/ˈɑːsᵻf ˈmɑːndviː/, AH-sif MAHND-vee), is an Indian-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.
Mandvi was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra, India, to a Dawoodi BohraMuslim family. His family moved to England, settling, when he was a year old, in the West Yorkshire city of Bradford, where his father, Hakim, had originally come to work in textiles research at Bradford University, and later ran a corner shop, while his mother, Fatima, was a nurse. Although Mandvi identifies himself as a "working-class kid from Bradford", he attended the independent Woodhouse Grove School. His father grew frustrated with Margaret Thatcher's Britain and moved his family to Tampa, Florida when Mandvi was 16.
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