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Aasif Hakim Mandviwala (known professionally as Aasif Mandvi; born March 5, 1966) is a British-American actor, comedian and author. He made his television debut as a doorman at the Miami Biltmore Hotel in the episode "Line of Fire" of the series Miami Vice. In 2006, Mandvi auditioned for The Daily Show and was hired immediately and appeared on the show the same day. He began appearing as an occasional contributing correspondent on The Daily Show on August 9, 2006. On March 12, 2007, he was promoted to a regular correspondent. In October 2013, during a segment on The Daily Show, his interview with Don Yelton led to Yelton's resignation from the North Carolina Republican Party office. In 2013, he was cast in a recurring role on the FOX romantic comedy, Us & Them. Beginning in June 2015, he portrayed Rafiq Massoud in the HBO comedy series The Brink. He also served as a writer and co-producer on the series. Also in 2015, he was the lead actor, co-writer and producer of the web series Halal in the Family, which premiered on Funny or Die. In 2016, he joined the climate change documentary show Years of Living Dangerously as one of its celebrity correspondents. Beginning in 2017, he had a short recurring role on Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events as Montgomery "Uncle Monty" Montgomery, a herpetologist and distant relative of the Baudelaire children. In 2019, he starred in CBS' supernatural drama series Evil as Ben Shakir, a carpenter who works as a technical expert, equipment handler and debunker of supernatural phenomena. His other recurring roles include Oz, CSI, Tanner on Tanner, The Bedford Diaries, Jericho, Blue Bloods, Younger, and This Way Up. He hosted the game show Would I Lie to You? (2022). He played minor roles in the films The Siege and Die Hard with a Vengeance. He played the doctor who diagnosed Paul Vitti's (Robert De Niro) panic attacks in Analyze This, and had a role as Mr. Aziz of "Joe's Pizza" in Spider-Man 2. He played the tone deaf doorman Khan in Music and Lyrics, a dentist alongside Ricky Gervais in Ghost Town, Bob Spaulding in The Proposal, and appeared in It's Kind of a Funny Story. In M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender (released in 2010) he played a major role as Commander Zhao. He played the role of Mr. Chetty in The Internship and Ash Vasudevan in Million Dollar Arm. He has appeared in other films including Random Hearts, Margin Call, Dark Horse, The Dictator, Ruby Sparks, Premium Rush, Movie 43, Mother's Day, Drunk Parents, and more.
Aasif Mandvi
Benjamin Disraeli (historical)
for Benjamin Disraeli (historical) in The Victorian Star
Suggested by mr95
Set in the Victorian court from approximately 1855 to 1875, The Victorian Star follows Adelaide of Saxe-Coburg, 26, a Black woman raised as a ward in the extended household of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert — brought into the royal family circle as an infant through the specific historical circumstance of the British crown's abolitionist associations and Prince Albert's particular conviction that the royal household should embody the principles it publicly advocated. Adelaide bears a Germanic Saxe-Coburg name in recognition of her standing. She is entirely Victorian-English in every dimension: she speaks English, German, and French, plays the piano with the discipline that Prince Albert's musical household demanded, manages charitable works with extraordinary efficiency, and is regarded by those who know her well as having one of the sharpest political minds in the Victorian court. Her arranged marriage to Lord Charles Montague, a younger son of the Duke of Manchester who has built a career in colonial administration before returning to London, creates the series' central engine: a woman who is the Victorian ideal in every way the era cannot officially acknowledge, and a man who spent years in empire's service and is slowly, painfully unlearning what empire taught him about the world. S1E1 — Windsor Adelaide managing the royal household's charitable correspondence — thousands of letters, perfect prose, zero credit. Lord Montague arrives in London from his colonial posting. They meet at a royal household function. S1E8 — Albert's Death Prince Albert's death. The court's grief. Adelaide's grief. The episode is almost entirely quiet. S2E12 — The Record Series finale: Adelaide's work — her charitable networks, her behind-the-scenes political correspondence, her two decades of invisible competence — is acknowledged publicly, in print, for the first time. Lord Montague wrote it. He asked her permission.
