About
Emmy Award-nominated filmmaker, comedian, entertainer, actress, and writer who starred as Mallory Modi on the 2019 comedy series Sunnyside. As a touring comedian, she has headlined the Kennedy Center and the NY Comedy Festival. She has also presented the Crooked Media podcast "Hysteria" and appeared in celebrated shows like Modern Family and How to Get Away with Murder.
Before Fame
She graduated from Harvard University. She made her professional acting debut in the 2003 short comedy film The Epic Tale of Kalesius and Clotho: A Meditation on the Impossibility of Romantic Love in a Rapidly Expanding Universe.
Trivia
In 2010, she won a Distinguished Short Documentary Award from the International Documentary Association for her film Woman Rebel, which followed the story of a female Nepalese rebel army soldier. Her film was also nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research. Her performance on Sunnyside earned a Vision Award nomination for Best Comedy Performance. In 2020, she was named on the Entertainment Weekly list of "11 Asian American Comics Who Killed it This Year."
Family Life
She was born Kirandeep Kaur Deol. She was born in the United Kingdom and raised in Boca Raton, FL in the United States.
Associated With
She co-starred on the award-winning television series Sunnyside with Kal Penn, Moses Storm, and Diana Maria Riva.
