Mindy Lahiri: Last News

BJ Novak didn't hold back when praising his friend, ex, and former collaborator, Mindy Kaling. The 43-year-old actor and writer gave an almost eight-minute speech honoring Kaling, 43, at the 2023 Producers Guild Awards over the weekend.Presenting Kaling with the Norman Lear Award for Achievement in Television, Novak gushed, «The first thing I noticed about Mindy in that writers' room is she cared so much about everything… her opinions were passionate and unstoppable and she cared about all the issues of the day.»Novak touched on meeting Kaling while they were co-writing and co-starring on, sharing details on their passionate on-off romance.«We were in love with each other, and we were reckless idiots.

Life, liberty and chicken wings! The Mindy Project gave fans a female superhero in OB-GYN Dr. Mindy Lahiri (Mindy Kaling), who was oddly relatable because of her love of rom-coms, food and tendency to crack jokes while at work.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterMindy Kaling is known for her effervescent, sometimes airy, characters, like Kelly Kapoor on “The Office” or Mindy Lahiri on “The Mindy Project.” But don’t get them confused with Mindy Kaling, the rising entertainment mogul and founder of Kaling International, the production company with three shows in motion and an appetite for more.For Variety’s Power of Women issue, Kaling talked in-depth about her intense daily schedule (literally half a dozen television and film projects), the evolution of her style as a boss and exec producer, the importance of sharing her hard-earning wisdom with the next generation of women of color looking to break into the business, and the best things she’s watched during the pandemic.