Aasif Mandvi (born March 5, 1966, 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.releases/2007/31207_aasif_mandvi_joins_tds.jhtml" target="_blank">http://www.comedycentral.com/press/press_releases/2007/31207_aasif_mandvi_joins_tds.jhtml
Before moving to New York City, he was part of the "Streetmosphere" (now, "Citizens of Hollywood") ensemble at the _Disney-MGM Studios at Walt Disney World.
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 was the doctor who diagnosed Paul Vitti's (Robert de Niro) panic attacks in Analyze This, and had a memorable role as Mr. Aziz of "Joe's Pizza" in Spider-Man 2. He was also in a Dominos Pizza commercial. He played the doorman Khan in Music and Lyrics.
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, Ed, The Bedford Diaries, Jericho, Sleeper Cell and various editions of Law & Order, including Criminal Intent, Special Victims Unit and Trial by Jury.
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).
