Aasif Mandvi

Aasif Hakim Mandviwala , known professionally as Aasif Mandvi , is an IndianAmerican actor and comedian. 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. He is the lead actor, cowriter and producer of the web series Halal In The Family which premiered on Funny or Die in 2015 and an actor, writer and coproducer of the HBO comedy series The Brink. Mandvi is also the author of the book No Lands Man.

Mandvi was born in Bombay , Maharashtra, India, to a Dawoodi Bohra Muslim family. His family moved to England, settling, when he was a year old, in the West Yorkshire city of Bradford, where his father, Hakim, had originally come to work in textiles research at Bradford University, and later ran a corner shop, while his mother, Fatima, was a nurse. Although Mandvi identifies himself as a workingclass kid from Bradford, he attended the independent Woodhouse Grove School. His father grew frustrated with Margaret Thatchers Britain and moved his family to Tampa, Florida when Mandvi was 16.

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