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Daniel Mark Pudi (born March 10, 1979) is an Indian-Polish/American actor. He is best known for his role as Abed Nadir on the NBC sitcom Community (2009–2015), for which he received three nominations for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and one nomination for the TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Comedy. Since 2020 he has starred as Brad Bakshi in the Apple TV+ comedy series Mythic Quest. He played the lead role in The Tiger Hunter, a comedic and warmhearted independent film surrounding the immigrant experience directed by Lena Khan in 2016 and funded through a Kickstarter campaign. His short film, Running, which he wrote himself, follows Pudi as he sets out on a mission to solve the puzzle of his father and finds himself instead on a complex, funny, and vulnerable journey of self-discovery and acceptance.
Danny Pudi
Abed Nadir
for Abed Nadir in Community: The Movie (2023)
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The study group gets back together to find the Dean of Greendale Community College who has been kidnapped. The movie will open with Garrett Lambert going through the empty hallways of Greendale Community College stopping at the Dean's office where he finds a ransom note from the kidnapper. The note is addressed to Jeff Winger, the kidnapper is demanding $100,000 in cash or he will never see Dean Pelton again. Jeff calls up his old study group to help him find the kidnapper and save the Dean. The study group decides the suspects are Ben Chang for obvious reasons, Dean Spreck cause of his feud with Dean Pelton and Todd only because they need a 3rd suspect. The group turns the study room into an interrogation room and start interrogating the 3 suspects. After a couple weeks of the investigation the group is ready to give up until Annie walks into an empty classroom and finds Luis Guzman torturing Dean Pelton. As Guzman is getting arrested he confesses he did it because the Dean has not been paying him for using his likeness to bring more students to Greendale for years. There will be an end Credit Scene with Ben Chang laughing uncontrollably like he had something to do with it.
