Kal Penn

Kalpen Suresh Modi, known professionally as Kal Penn, is an American actor, author, and former White House staff member in the Barack Obama administration. As an actor he is known for his portrayals of Lawrence Kutner on the television program House, White House staffer Seth Wright on Designated Survivor, Kevin, a psychologist and boyfriend to Robin in How I Met Your Mother, and Kumar Patel in the Harold & Kumar film series. He is also recognized for his performance in the film The Namesake. Penn once taught at the University of Pennsylvania in the Cinema Studies Program as a visiting lecturer.

23 April 1977

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Born on the same birth day (23 April): Andrew Gee (rugby league) • Bernadette Devlin McAliskey • Bobby Rosengarden • Carlos Dengler • Dolph Briscoe • Joanna Krupa • Johann Stumpf (writer) • Leni Robredo • Peter Dench • Roy Orbison • Shaun Spiers • Tony Lupien

Born in the same month (April 1977): Constantinos Christoforou • Gerard Way • Giovanny Espinoza • Ivonne Teichmann • Mark Spencer (computer engineer) • Roxana Saberi • Sarah Michelle Gellar • Stephen Mulhern • Sudarsan Pattnaik • Vitor Belfort