Mindy Kaling

Mindy is 5 feet and 4 inches tall.

Awards and Nominations: • 2009 (nomination)- SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble for The Office. • 2008 (win)- SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble for The Office. • 2008 (nomination)- Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series for The Office episode "Branch Wars". • 2008 (nomination)- WGA Award for Best Comedy Series for The Office. • 2007 (win)- SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series for The Office. Shared with castmates. • 2007 (nomination)- Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series for The Office. • 2007 (win)- WGA Award for Best Comedy Series for The Office. • 2006 (win)- Women in Film's WIN Award for Outstanding Comedy Series for The Office. Shared with her female castmates. • 2006 (nomination)- WGA Award for Best New Series for The Office. • 2006 (nomination)- WGA Award for Best Comedy Series for The Office.

Mindy is friends with How I Met Your Mother star Josh Radnor.

One of Mindy's favorite TV shows is The Closer.

While Mindy worked as a production assistant after she graduated from college, she made most of her money thru babysitting.

Mindy uses the blogger ID Mindy Ephron on her blog. She adores the movies Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail, both written by Nora Ephron.

Mindy's mother is a doctor, who works at the same hospital in Boston as John Krasinksi's father. John costars with Mindy on The Office.

Mindy's character, Kelly, was written on to The Office when the writers needed some one to slap Michael in the episode "Diversity Day", and they decided to let Mindy, who was a writer, do it.

In February 2008, Mindy was featured on the cover of Improper Bostonian magazine.

Mindy's standup comedy was featured on the CD Comedy Death-Ray.

Mindy, whose real name is Vera, got her nickname from the TV show Mork and Mindy.

Mindy, along with the other The Office producers, was nominated for a 2007 Emmy for Best Comedy Series.

Mindy worked on John Edward's show Crossing Over as a Personal Assistant.

Mindy, along with Brian Baumgartner and Angela Kinsey, all appeared in the 2007 movie License to Wed, which starred John Krasinski, who appears with them on The Office.

Mindy is a writer/ producer on the show The Office and has written several episodes, including Hot Girl, The Dundies, Take Your Daughter to Work Day, and The Injury.

Mindy Kaling was an intern on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, just like The Office co-stars John Krasinski and Angela Kinsey.

Mindy is an accomplished lyricist, in late 2006 she helped work on lyrics for many plays and comedies.

In January 2007 Mindy was featured in Nirali Magazine.

Mindy began writing short plays at the age of nine.

Mindy Kaling's real-life parents play her character Kelly Kapoor's parents in Diwali one of the many episodes Mindy has written for The Office. She also cast many of the extras for this episode.

Mindy brings her favorite black and gold Besty Johnson bag to every award show she goes to.

Mindy's favorite snack is 100-calorie snack bags of kettle corn popcorn.

Mindy created, wrote and illustrated the comic strip Badly Drawn Girl for her college newspaper.

She was the restaurant hostess in the movie Unaccompanied Minors.

In April 2006, she was a guest writer for Saturday Night Live.

She had her first onscreen role in a feature film in The 40 Year-Old Virgin.

She graduated from Buckingham, Browne & Nichols, a private school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1997.

She graduated from Dartmouth College, where she performed in an improvisational comedy troupe called the Dog Day Players.

Mindy Kaling was one of the writers and acted in the successful 2002 off-Broadway play Matt & Ben, a comedic look at the rise and friendship of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Mindy played Ben. The play was named one of Time Magazine's "Top Ten Theatrical Events of The Year".