Kal Penn

Kalpen Suresh Modi, who is popularly known as Kal Penn is a Hollywood star and TV actor. He joined the White House's Office of Public Engagement as an associate director in the year 2009.But after a time span of just nine months he decided to get back to his Hollywood career, after leaving Obama administration.

Penn’s character Gogol in the movie ‘The Namesake’, directed by Mira Nair touched the hearts of millions of film lovers and so did his performance in movies like American Desi, A Lot like love, Epic movie and Superman returns.

Kal attended The Fine and Performing Arts Academy at Howell High School and later on majored in film and sociology from the University of California at Los Angeles. He was born to Guajarati immigrants.