Mindy Kaling

Mindy Kaling is an American actress, comedian, writer, and producer who first came to prominence as Kelly Kapoor in the American version of The Office, on which she also served as a writer, executive producer, and director. Born Vera Mindy Chokalingam in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Indian immigrant parents, she studied playwriting at Dartmouth College. After The Office, Kaling created, wrote, and starred in The Mindy Project and has since created the Netflix series Never Have I Ever and The Sex Lives of College Girls. She has also appeared in films including A Wrinkle in Time, Late Night, Ocean's 8, and voiced characters in Inside Out and its sequel. Kaling is a bestselling author, with books including Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, Why Not Me?, and Nothing Like I Imagined. She narrates her own audiobooks, and the audio format is a natural fit for her writing — conversational, self-deprecating, and very funny. As an audiobook narrator of her own work, Kaling brings exactly what her readers would hope for: the comic timing of a performer who has spent years in comedy writers' rooms, combined with a genuine warmth and openness about her experiences as a woman of colour navigating Hollywood. Her audiobooks feel like an extended, hilarious conversation with a very smart friend. For listeners who enjoy celebrity memoir and comedy non-fiction, Mindy Kaling's self-narrated audiobooks are consistently entertaining and surprisingly moving.