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It was essentially accepting a form of racial profiling.
I have a huge political problem with the role. Penn says he nearly turned down the role due to personal ethics: In January 2007, Penn appeared in the first four episodes of the sixth season of 24 as Ahmed Amar, a teenage terrorist.
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He has stated that he prefers his birth name and uses "Kal Penn" only for professional purposes.
Penn says that he derived his acting name, Kal Penn, as a lark: "Almost as a joke to prove friends wrong, and half as an attempt to see if what I was told would work (that anglicized names appeal more to a white-dominated industry), I put 'Kal Penn' on my resume and photos." His audition callbacks rose by 50 percent. He has since appeared in American Desi, Van Wilder, the final episode of The Lonely Island, Malibu's Most Wanted, A Lot Like Love, Dude, Where's the Party?, Love Don't Cost a Thing, Superman Returns, Epic Movie, The Namesake, the Harold & Kumar series, and an uncredited appearance in Deck the Halls. Penn's feature film debut came in 1998 in Express: Aisle to Glory. He graduated from UCLA in 2000, and double majored in film and sociology. He was active in the schools' theater productions and competed on the Freehold Township National Honor Society Speech and Debate team (formerly known as Forensics). He attended The Fine and Performing Arts Academy (a magnet program) as a Theater major at Howell High School for freshman year he transferred to Freehold Township High School for sophomore, junior, and senior years both schools are part of the Freehold Regional High School District. Modi attended Marlboro Middle School in Marlboro Township, New Jersey, where he played baritone saxophone in the jazz band. He has stated that stories of his grandparents marching with Mahatma Gandhi during the Indian independence movement were a significant influence on his interest in politics. Modi regularly visited Gujarat as a child during vacations, and he can speak some Gujarati. His father is from Kaira and his mother was born in Baroda. His mother, Asmita Bhatt, is a fragrance evaluator for a perfume company, and his father, Suresh Modi, is an engineer. He was born Kalpen Suresh Modi in Montclair, New Jersey, to Gujarati Indian immigrant parents. The following year he went on to host a political talk miniseries on Freeform called Kal Penn Approves This Message.
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In 2019, Penn portrayed Garrett Modi in the NBC sitcom series Sunnyside. Additionally, he served as host of the game show Superhuman. įrom 2016 to 2019, he played Seth Wright in the political drama Designated Survivor, where he also served as a consultant on the show. In July 2011, he again left the White House to accept a role in the television series How I Met Your Mother. Penn briefly left his post in June 2010 to film the third installment of the Harold & Kumar series, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, returning to his White House job upon the movie's completion.
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This necessitated that his TV character, Lawrence Kutner, be written out of House. In April 2009, Penn joined the Obama administration as the Principal Associate Editor in the White House Office of Public Engagement. Penn has taught at the University of Pennsylvania in the Cinema Studies Program as a visiting lecturer. He is also recognized for his performance in the film The Namesake. As an actor, he is known for his role portraying Lawrence Kutner on the television program House, as well as White House staffer Seth Wright on Designated Survivor and Kumar Patel in the Harold & Kumar film series. Kalpen Suresh Modi (born April 23, 1977), known professionally as Kal Penn, is an American actor, author, academic lecturer and former White House staff member in the Barack Obama administration.
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