Kal Penn
Year Title Role Notes
1999 Brookfield Kumar Zimmerman TV movie
1999 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Hunt Episode : Beer Bad
2000 Sabrina the Teenage Witch Prajeeb Episode : You Ca n't Twin
2000 Spin City Buddy Episode : The Spanish Prisoner
2001 Angel Fez Boy Episode : That Vision Thing
2001 ER Narajan Episode : The Longer You Stay
2001 NYPD Blue Solomon Al-Ramahi Episode : Baby Love
2001 The Agency Malek Episode : Rules of the Game
2003 All About the Andersons Dinesh Episode : Pilot
2003 Tru Calling Steven Episode : Haunted
2003 The Lonely Island Fred Episode : Regarding Andy
2006 The Danny Comden Project Max TV movie
2007 Law & Order : Special Victims Unit Henry Chanoor Episode : Outsider
2007 24 Ahmed Amar 4 episodes
2007-09 , 2012 House Dr. Lawrence Kutner Main role ( seasons 4-5 ) ; guest ( season 8 )
2011-12 , 2014 How I Met Your Mother Kevin 10 episodes
2013 The Big Brain Theory Host 8 episodes
2013 We Are Men Gil Bartis 7 episodes
2015 Battle Creek Detective Fontanelle White 11 episodes
2015 The Big Picture with Kal Penn Host 12 episodes
Filmography -- Television
Kalpen Suresh Modi (born April 23, 1977), known professionally as Kal Penn, is an American actor, comedian, and civil servant. As an actor, he is known for his role portraying Lawrence Kutner on the television program House, as well as the character Kumar Patel in the Harold & Kumar film series. He is also recognized for his performance in the film The Namesake. Penn has taught at the University of Pennsylvania in the Cinema Studies Program as a visiting lecturer. In April 2009, Penn joined the Obama administration as an Associate Director in the White House Office of Public Engagement. This necessitated that his TV character, Lawrence Kutner, be written out of House. Penn briefly left his post in June 2010 to film the third installment of the Harold & Kumar series, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, returning to his White House job upon the movie's completion. In July 2011, he again left the White House to accept a role in the television series How I Met Your Mother. From 2016 to 2019, he played Seth Wright in the political drama Designated Survivor and served as host of the game show Superhuman. In 2019, Penn portrayed Garrett Modi in the NBC sitcom series Sunnyside.