1966-03-05 ( 59 years old ) in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Aasif Hakim Mandviwala, known professionally as Aasif Mandvi, is a British-American actor, comedian and author. He made his television debut as a doorman at the Miami Biltmore Hotel in the episode "Line of Fire" of the series Miami Vice. In 2006, Mandvi auditioned for The Daily Show. He was hired immediately and appeared on the show the same day. 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. In October 2013, during a segment on The Daily Show, his interview with Don Yelton led to Yelton's resignation from the North Carolina Republican Party office.
In 2013, he was cast in a recurring role on the FOX romantic comedy, Us & Them. Beginning in June 2015, he portrayed Rafiq Massoud in the HBO comedy series The Brink. He also served as a writer and co-producer on the series. Also in 2015, he was the lead actor, co-writer and producer of the web series Halal in the Family, which premiered on Funny or Die. In 2016, he joined the climate change documentary show Years of Living Dangerously as one of its celebrity correspondents.
Beginning in 2017, he had a short recurring role on Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events as Montgomery "Uncle Monty" Montgomery, a herpetologist and distant relative of the Baudelaire children. In 2019, he starred in CBS' supernatural drama series Evil as Ben Shakir, a carpenter who works as a technical expert, equipment handler and debunker of supernatural phenomena. His other recurring roles include Oz, CSI, Tanner on Tanner, The Bedford Diaries, Jericho, Blue Bloods, Younger, and This Way Up. He hosted the game show Would I Lie to You? (2022).
He played minor roles in the films The Siege and Die Hard with a Vengeance. He played the doctor who diagnosed Paul Vitti's (Robert De Niro) panic attacks in Analyze This, and had a role as Mr. Aziz of "Joe's Pizza" in Spider-Man 2. He played the tone deaf doorman Khan in Music and Lyrics, a dentist alongside Ricky Gervais in Ghost Town, Bob Spaulding in The Proposal, and appeared in It's Kind of a Funny Story.
In M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender (released in 2010) he played a major role as Commander Zhao. He played the role of Mr. Chetty in The Internship and Ash Vasudevan in Million Dollar Arm. He has appeared in other films including Random Hearts, Margin Call, Dark Horse, The Dictator, Ruby Sparks, Premium Rush, Movie 43, Mother's Day, Drunk Parents, and more.
Movies
White with Fear
2024-10-19
The Magician's Elephant
2023-03-10
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
2022-07-14
Crush
2022-04-29
Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11
2021-09-11
Human Capital
2020-07-17
It Takes a Lunatic
2019-05-03
Drunk Parents
2019-02-08
A Kid Like Jake
2018-06-01
The Problem with Apu
2017-11-19
Undecided: The Movie
2016-10-18
Mother's Day
2016-04-28
East of Main Street: Taking the Lead
2015-05-01
Lennon or McCartney
2014-12-12
Million Dollar Arm
2014-05-09
Gods Behaving Badly
2013-11-13
The Muslims Are Coming!
2013-09-13
The Internship
2013-06-07
Movie 43
2013-01-24
Premium Rush
2012-08-24
Ruby Sparks
2012-07-25
Dark Horse
2012-06-08
The Dictator
2012-05-15
The Understudy
2012-03-16
Margin Call
2011-09-28
The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
2010-10-30
It's Kind of a Funny Story
2010-10-08
The Last Airbender
2010-06-30
Today's Special
2009-10-14
The Proposal
2009-06-02
Ghost Town
2008-09-19
The Response
2008-08-08
Pretty Bird
2008-08-08
Eavesdrop
2008-08-01
Music and Lyrics
2007-02-09
Freedomland
2006-02-17
The War Within
2005-09-30
Spider-Man 2
2004-06-25
Beat Cops
2003-09-01
Book of Kings
2002-05-10
The Mystic Masseur
2001-10-05
3 A.M.
2001-07-01
Peroxide Passion
2001-01-01
ABCD
1999-11-06
Random Hearts
1999-10-08
Analyze This
1999-03-05
Hook'd Up
1999-01-01
The Siege
1998-11-06
Eddie
1996-05-31
Jake's Women
1996-01-02
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
1995-05-19
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