page_title: Mindy Kaling
section_title: The Mindy Project
hierarchical_section_title: Mindy Kaling / Career / The Mindy Project
caption_attribution_description: English: Actress Mindy Kaling at PaleyFest 2013's panel for "The Mindy Project"
context_page_description: Vera Mindy Chokalingam, known professionally as Mindy Kaling, is an American actress, comedian, screenwriter, television producer, television director and author.
  Kaling first gained recognition starring as Kelly Kapoor in the NBC sitcom The Office, for which she also served as a writer, executive producer, and director. For her work on the series, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series and five times for Outstanding Comedy Series. She gained wider attention for creating, writing, producing and starring in the Fox/Hulu comedy series The Mindy Project. She also created the NBC sitcom Champions, the Hulu miniseries Four Weddings and a Funeral, and the Netflix comedy-drama series Never Have I Ever.
  Kaling's film career includes voice work in Despicable Me, Wreck-It Ralph, and Inside Out. She had roles in such comedy films as The Night Before, Ocean's 8, and Late Night, the lattermost of which she also wrote and produced. Kaling has also written two New York Times best-selling memoirs, titled Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? and Why Not Me?.
context_section_description: In 2012, Kaling pitched a single-camera comedy to Fox called The Mindy Project, which Kaling wrote and produced. Fox began airing the series in 2012. In 2013, Time magazine named her on their list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
  Kaling notes that she is sometimes described as a pioneer, as there are not yet very many Indian-American women on television. Fox canceled the series in May 2015 but it was later picked up by Hulu for a 26-episode fourth season and a 16-episode fifth season. In March 2017, Kaling announced that the show's sixth season, which would air starting September 2017, would be the last. The series concluded on November 14, 2017.
caption: Kaling in 2013
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