Aasif Mandvi (born in Mumbai, India) is an Indian American actor. He began appearing as an occasional correspondent on The Daily Show on August 9, 2006. On March 12, 2007, he was promoted to a regular correspondent.
Mandvi played the title role in Merchant Ivory Productions' film The Mystic Masseur and is also the recipient of an Obie Award for his critically acclaimed one-man show Sakina's Restaurant. He also had a major supporting role in the independent film American Chai, playing the lead character's roommate, "Engineering Sam". He had a memorable role as Mr. Aziz of "Joe's Pizza" in Spider-Man 2.
On Broadway Mandvi appeared as Ali Hakim in the 2002 revival of Oklahoma! directed by Trevor Nunn. He also appeared in the play Homebody/Kabul by Tony Kushner at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company and The Brooklyn Academy of Music. He recently portrayed the German chemist Fritz Haber in the off-Broadway play Einstein's Gift. Mandvi played Melchior in On the Razzle by Tom Stoppard at The Williamstown Theatre Festival and appeared in the docudrama Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom at The Culture Project.
He has been in numerous television shows; ER, The Sopranos, Sex and the City, CSI, Oz, The Bedford Diaries, Jericho, Sleeper Cell and various editions of Law & Order, including Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order: Trial by Jury.
Mandvi used to play guitar for the New York-based band, Cowboys and Indian, in which he was the titular Indian. He left the band to concentrate on acting. The band was based on one of the bands in the movie American Chai, in which Aasif played "Engineering Sam."
Mandvi has recently appeared in Dominos Pizza commercials, recalling his role in Spider-Man 2.
Mandvi was the reader for the books on audio editions of Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown (2005) and V. S. Naipaul's Magic Seeds (2004).
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