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  • Birth Name: Kalpen Suresh Modi
  • Birth Place: Montclair, NJ
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 04/23/1977, Taurus
  • Profession: Actor; producer
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Watch My Show: The Big Brain Theory's Kal Penn, Craig Piligian Answer Our Showrunner Survey

Kal Penn has played his share of doctors (House, How I Met Your Mother) and stoners (the Harold & Kumar films), and he'll star in CBS's new comedy We Are Men this fall. He's currently hosting Discovery's new competition series The Big Brain Theory: Pure Genius (Wednesdays, 10/9c). The show presents...read more

The Wednesday Playlist: Americans Finale, ABC's Tools, HBO's Manhunt

It's May Day (as in: mayday!) for the Russian spies — and just about everyone else — in the taut first-season finale of FX's emotionally engrossing The Americans (Wednesday, 10/9c). Chivalry is not dead, even in the estranged not-quite-marriage of embedded KGB operatives Philip and Elizabeth Jennings (Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell), as they prepare for a dangerous mission that could be a set-up, with lots of jockeying and posturing between husband (who wants to protect while serving) and wife (who's adamant about following orders to the letter) about who's going to risk everything, including their "normal" family life, to walk into what might be a trap.read more

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Aired: 1/16/2007

Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola (Ice-T) tries to find a serial rapist after his son asks him to help a college co-ed at his dorm. watch

Kal Penn: Videos

We Are Men cast offers sneak peak of new CBS comedy
Law & Order: SVU
Pure Genius Season 1: Extreme Forces of Nature
We Are Men cast offers sneak peak of new CBS comedy

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A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (Cinemax)
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Seek and Destroy
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The Next Great Innovator

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Year Title Description
2013 Global Leaders TV Show Series, Appearing
2013 The Big Brain Theory TV Show Series, Host
2012 Making of "A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas" TV Show Series, Appearing
2011 A Very Harold And Kumar Christmas Movie, Actor - Kumar
2009 We Are One TV Show Series, Remarks by

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VIDEO: Eva Longoria "Moved to Tears" Over Barack Obama's Re-Election

Words were not enough to express Eva Longoria's joy over Barack Obama's re-election.

The actress was moved to tears upon hearing the news. read more

Kal Penn Joins CBS' New Comedy Pilot Ex-Men

Kal Penn is moving to CBS.

The House alum has joined the cast of Ex-Men, a comedy pilot from How I Met Your Mother's Rob Greenberg, TVGuide.com has learned.

CBS' Ex-Men comedy pilot casts its lead

The single-camera comedy focuses on a young guy (Paranormal Activity 3's Chris Smith) who finds camaraderie living among the more experienced men he meets in a short-term rental complex. Penn, a co-lead on the series, will play... read more

House Finale: So, Did "Everybody" Die?

House's series finale ominously promised "Everybody Dies." 

House comes to an end: The cast and producers recall creating a curmudgeon

But the truer message was... read more

House Comes to an End: The Cast and Producers Retrace the Series' Highs and Lows

Bolstered by American Idol, House quickly became a huge hit. At the end of the third season — which remains the show's highest-rated — the producers blew up the formula and forced House to rebuild his entire diagnostic team. It was the first of many bold (and controversial) storytelling choices. In Part 2 of our oral history, the show's creators and cast look back at the show's most memorable plots. (Read Part 1 here.)

In the Season 3 finale, House... read more

Finale Preview: Hugh Laurie and the House Cast Check Out

After eight seasons and 177 episodes, House ends with an outbreak of poignant goodbyes. In the emotional run-up to the series finale — the episode, titled "Everybody Dies," airs May 21 at 9pm on Fox — each shooting day brought cheers, standing Os and misty-eyed send-offs. "A succession of daily memorial services, it was," as Hugh Laurie puts it. "Someone would yell, 'Hey, everybody, this is Omar Epps' last scene!' 'This is Jesse Spencer's last scene!' 'This is B camera operator's last scene.' The art director's. The sound technician's. It became hard to process all the finality."

It's amusing to imagine... read more

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