One of the most famous American actress and comedian Mindy Kaling is famous for the television sitcom The Mindy Project. The actress who worked in another famous TV show The Office. Here is a quick summary of Mindy Kaling’s net worth in 2019, career and earnings.
Early Life
Mindy was born on 24th June 1979 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her parents were Indians. Mindy’s father was an architect, and her mother was a doctor. She was named by her parents in the name of a leading character in Mork & Mindy. Mindy was very studious in childhood and sensitive too.
Career
She created Badly Drawn Girl, her own comic strip at a very young age. Famous play Matt and Ben was her first taste of fame. Spoof about actors like Matt Deamon and Ben Affleck became very famous. The name of the movie for which the screenplay was written was Good Will Hunting. The role of Damon was played by Kaling, and the role of Ben Affleck was played by Brenda Withers. The show was staged in New York City and Los Angeles. Producer Greg Daniels offered Kaling a job after watching the show.
Kaling joined The Office, a popular British comedy series as a writer and an actress. Mindy played the role of Kelly Kapoor in the show which started in 2005. The show also features John Krasinski and Steve Carell. As a writer and a producer of the show, Kaling received six Emmy Award nominations. She started her own series The Mindy Project after that in 2012.
Awards & Achievements
In 2007 she got Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy Series and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. She won the award of Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series again the very next year. In the year 2013, she got Gracie Awards for Outstanding Producer – Entertainment.
The year 2014 was the best for her as she got 4 awards like Glamour Award for The Lady Boss, Glamour Award for Woman of the Year, People Magazine Awards for TV Couple of the Year, and Gracie Award for Outstanding Female Lead in a Comedy Series. The very next year she got Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy and Goodreads Choice Awards Best Humor.
Net Worth of Mindy Kaling
Mindy earned a lot in her acting career. In the year 2015, her earnings were $9 million, and they increased to $15 million the very next year. The value of her three-bedroom house in Los Angeles, California is $1,600,000. Right now, the net worth of Mindy is $18 million.
Other than producing, writing and acting in her own show she appeared in some films too like The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, and Unaccompanied Minors. She worked as a voice artist in Inside Out and Wreck-It Ralph. Mindy is very famous on Twitter and had 3.8 million followers.