Aasif Mandviwala Wiki Biography

Aasif Hakim Mandviwala was born on the 5th March 1966, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, and is an Indian-American actor, director and producer, probably best recognized for starring in the role of Dr. Leever in “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” (2000-2006), playing Aasif Qu’osby in the web series “Halal In The Family” (2015), and as Rafiq Massoud in “The Brink” (2015). He is also known as a correspondent on “The Daily Show”. His career has been active since 1995.

So, have you ever wondered how rich Aasif Mandvi is, as of mid-2017? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that the total size of Aasif net worth is over $800,000, accumulated through his successful involvement in the entertainment industry. Another source is coming from the sale of his book “No Land’s Man” (2014).

Aasif Mandvi Net Worth $800,000

Aasif Mandvi hails from a Dawoodi Bohra Muslim family, the son of Hakim, who was the owner of a corner shop, and Fatima, who worked as a nurse. When he was a baby, the family moved to Bradford, England, where he spent one part of his childhood, attending the independent Woodhouse Grove School. At the age of 16, the family relocated to Tampa, Florida, USA, where he enrolled at the University of South Florida, from which he graduated with a BA degree in Theater.

Right after graduating, Aasif started to pursue his career in the entertainment industry, performing at the Walt Disney World Resort and Disney-MGM Studios. Afterwards, he moved to New York City and began appearing in off-Broadway productions. Subsequently, his career on television began, when he guest-starred in an episode of “Miami Vice” (1988), while his career on the big screen began in 1995, when he made his debut appearance in the role of an Arab cabbie in the film entitled “Die Hard With A Vengeance”, starring alongside Bruce Willis. In the same year, he began guest-starring in the TV series “Law & Order”, which lasted until 1998. By the end of the decade, Aasif had also starred in the role of Khalil Saleh in “The Siege” (1998), and played Dr. Shulman in “Analyze This” (1999) alongside Robert DeNiro, among others. In 2000, he was chosen to portray Dr. Leever in the TV series “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” through 2006 – all of these roles added a considerable amount to his net worth.

In the new millennium, Aasif continued to line up succeses, as he appeared in the role of Ganesh in the 2001 film “The Mystic Masseur” directed by Ismail Merchant, played Dr. Tariq Faraj in the TV series “Oz” (2002), and Roger in the film entitled “Undermind” (2003). In the following year, he was cast as Mr. Aziz in the film “Spider-Man 2”, and was selected to play Salim Barik in the TV series “Tanner On Tanner”. When the filming of “CSI” was ended, Aasif was chosen to portray Kamil Sharif in another TV series entitled “The Bedford Diaries” (2006), and won the role of Dr. Kenchy Dhuwalia in the TV series “Jericho” (2006-2008). During the same year, he was hired on TV for “The Daily Show”, achieving enormous success and becoming a regular correspondent in the next year. He also appeared in such film titles as “Music And Lyrics” (2007) alongside Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore, “Ghost Town” (2008), and “The Last Airbender” (2010), all of which increased his net worth by a large margin.

His first role in the 2010s was in the film “Margin Call” (2011), which was followed by a role in the 2012 film “The Dictator”, directed by Larry Charles. To speak further about Aasif’s career, in 2015 he began to appear as Aasif Qu’osby in the web series “Halal In The Family” and later that year as Rafiq Massoud in the TV series “The Brink”, for which he was also producer and director. Most recently, Aasif was cast in the TV show “A Series Of Unfortunate Events” in 2017, so his net worth is certainly still rising.

Regarding Aasif Mandvi’s personal life, there are only rumours of a ‘secret’ relationship, but that’s it. In his spare time, he collaborates with a number of charitable organizations, including Relief 4 Pakistan, the Endometriosis Foundation of America, etc.



Full Name Aasif Mandvi
Net Worth $800,000
Date Of Birth March 5, 1966
Place Of Birth Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Height 5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
Profession Actor, Producer, Writer
Education University of South Florida
Nationality Indian, American
Parents Fatima Mandvi, Hakim Mandvi
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aasifmandvi
Twitter https://twitter.com/aasif
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0541902/
Awards Obie Award for Special Citations
Nominations Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Ensemble Performance, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor
Movies Today’s Special, The Last Airbender, Million Dollar Arm, The Internship, Mother’s Day, Spider-Man 2, Premium Rush, The Proposal, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, The Dictator, Ghost Town, Music and Lyrics, Margin Call, Ruby Sparks, Freedomland, The Mystic Masseur, The War Within, The Siege, Sorry, Haters…
TV Shows The Brink, The Bedford Diaries, Tanner ’88, The Daily Show, A Series of Unfortunate Events
Quote
1 When I was 11 my friend’s mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, ‘I’m never eating anything else again.’ And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.
2 Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It’s already happening, and it’s hot!
3 I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it’s been something that I’ve always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
4 In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food… they’ve never even tasted it!
5 An artist’s job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It’s not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
6 When you’re brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.
7 The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
8 I’m not really a food connoisseur.
9 I’ve always said I’m the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that’s ever existed, because I’ve been inside more bars than mosques.
10 If you don’t acknowledge differences, it’s as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.
11 In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you’re a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn’t matter where you come from.
12 The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you’re reaching people.
13 I was born in India – but never really lived there.
14 I’m Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.
15 People lament that there’s no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don’t want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don’t get it both ways.
16 The great joy of doing ‘The Daily Show’ for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I’m playing the brown guy, and sometimes I’m not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
17 I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad – I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.
Fact
1 In November 2014 he will publish his first book, “No Land’s Man”, a collection of personal essays.
2 Grew up in Bradford, England, UK, and Tampa, Florida, USA.
3 Graduated from the University of South Florida, where he majored in theater.
4 His one-man show “Sakina’s Restaurant” was the first play written by a South Asian American to be produced Off Broadway.
5 Ismail Merchant cast Mandvi as the lead in the film The Mystic Masseur (2001) after seeing him perform “Sakina’s Restaurant,” his one-man show.
6 He and Connie Britton used to perform together in a Murder Mystery company.
7 During his first-ever appearance on The Daily Show (1996), Bruce Springsteen was in the studio audience.

Actor

Title Year Status Character
The Brink 2015 TV Series Rafiq Massoud
Halal in the Family 2015 TV Series Aasif Qu’osby
Person of Interest 2015 TV Series Sulaiman Khan
Madam Secretary 2015 TV Series Prince Yousif Obaid
Us & Them 2014 TV Series Dave
Million Dollar Arm 2014 Aash
Movie 43 2013 Robert (segment “iBabe”)
Gods Behaving Badly 2013 Maxwell
The Internship 2013 Mr. Chetty
Premium Rush 2012 Raj
Ruby Sparks 2012 Cyrus Modi
The Dictator 2012 Doctor
Curb Your Enthusiasm 2011 TV Series Man in Elevator
Dark Horse 2011 Mahmoud
Margin Call 2011 Ramesh Shah
CollegeHumor Originals 2010 TV Series Zack Chance
It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2010 Dr. Mahmoud
The Last Airbender 2010 Commander Zhao
The Last Airbender 2010 Video Game Commander Zhao
King of the Hill 2010 TV Series
Today’s Special 2009 Samir
The Proposal 2009/I Bob Spaulding
Ghost Town 2008/I Dr. Prashar
The Response 2008 Short Al-Aqar
Global Warming 2008 TV Series Ace
The Understudy 2008 Sarfras
Jericho 2006-2008 TV Series Dr. Kenchy Dhuwalia
Pretty Bird 2008 Ted the Banker
Eavesdrop 2008 Don
ER 2006-2007 TV Series Manish
Music and Lyrics 2007 Khan
Sleeper Cell 2006 TV Series Khalid
The Sopranos 2006 TV Series Dr. Abu Bilal
The Bedford Diaries 2006 TV Series Kamil Sharif
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 2000-2006 TV Series Dr. Leever
Freedomland 2006 Dr. Anil Chatterjee
The War Within 2005 Abdul
Sorry, Haters 2005 Hassan
Law & Order: Trial by Jury 2005 TV Series Judge Samir Patel
Law & Order: Criminal Intent 2004 TV Series Sateesh
Tanner on Tanner 2004 TV Series Salim Barik / Salim
Spider-Man 2 2004 Mr. Aziz
Ed 2003 TV Series Buyer
Undermind 2003 Shark / Roger
Book of Kings 2002 Short Dr. Mitra
Oz 2002 TV Series Dr. Tariq Faraj
The Mystic Masseur 2001 Ganesh Ramseyor
Sex and the City 2001 TV Series Dmitri
Peroxide Passion 2001 Beaumond
3 A.M. 2001 Singh
American Chai 2001 Engineering Sam
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 2000 TV Series Professor Husseini
Welcome to New York 2000 TV Series Doorman
Deadline 2000 TV Series
ABCD 1999 Ashok
Random Hearts 1999 Electronics Store Salesman
Gofer 1999 Short Gorby
Analyze This 1999 Dr. Shulman
Personals 1999 Indian Guy
The Siege 1998 Khalil Saleh
Law & Order 1995-1998 TV Series Peanut Vendor / Gulab Singh / Technician / …
Dellaventura 1998 TV Series Aasif
Nash Bridges 1996 TV Series Aziz Kadim
Eddie 1996 Mohammed
Jake’s Women 1996 TV Movie Driver
Die Hard: With a Vengeance 1995 Arab Cabbie
The Cosby Mysteries 1995 TV Series Cabbie
New York Undercover 1995 TV Series Omar
No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers 1990 Terrorist (as Aasif Mandviwala)
Miami Vice 1988 TV Series Doorman

Producer

Title Year Status Character
Halal in the Family 2015 TV Series executive producer – 4 episodes
The Brink 2015 TV Series co-producer – 5 episodes
Today’s Special: New York Indian 2012 TV Movie co-producer

Writer

Title Year Status Character
The Brink 2015 TV Series written by – 1 episode
Halal in the Family 2015 TV Series written by – 4 episodes
Today’s Special 2009 play “Sakina’s Restaurant” / screenplay

Soundtrack

Title Year Status Character
The 56th Annual Tony Awards 2002 TV Special performer: “The Farmer and the Cowman”

Self

Title Year Status Character
The Late Late Show with James Corden 2015 TV Series Himself
Last Call with Carson Daly 2015 TV Series Himself – Guest
East of Main Street: Taking the Lead 2015 Documentary Himself
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart 2006-2015 TV Series Himself – Correspondent
Late Show with David Letterman 2015 TV Series Himself
Night of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together for Autism Programs 2015 TV Movie Himself
Lennon or McCartney 2014 Documentary short Himself
Late Night with Seth Meyers 2014 TV Series Himself
TakePart Live 2014 TV Series Himself – Guest
Jimmy Kimmel Live! 2010-2014 TV Series Himself
The Muslims Are Coming! 2013 Documentary Himself
Larry King Now 2012 TV Series Himself – Guest
Big Morning Buzz Live with Nick Lachey 2012 TV Series Himself
Today’s Special: New York Indian 2012 TV Movie Himself – Host
Discovering ‘The Last Airbender’ 2010 Video documentary Himself
The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear 2010 TV Movie Himself – Correspondent
The BackStage Pass 2009 Video Himself
Late Night with Conan O’Brien 2008 TV Series Himself
The 56th Annual Tony Awards 2002 TV Special Himself – Performer

Nominated Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
2015 Streamy Award The Streamy Awards Best Actor Halal in the Family (2015)
2012 COFCA Award Central Ohio Film Critics Association Best Ensemble Margin Call (2011)
2011 Gotham Independent Film Award Gotham Awards Best Ensemble Performance Margin Call (2011)
2011 PFCS Award Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards Best Ensemble Acting Margin Call (2011)

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