Biography
Actor Cal Penn, like his colleague Arnold Schwarzenegger, breaks between cinema and politics. However, in contrast to Iron Arnie, the artist, famous for the role of Kumara in a series of youth comedies, is cooperating not with the Republicans, but with democrats and has the right to run for the position of President of the United States. In the United States, to fight for the highest state post may be the applicant of any nationality, but born in the United States, and Cal is a native of "countries of equal opportunities".Childhood and youth
Calpen Suresh Modi (this is the real name of the actor) was born in April 1977 in the town of Montcherr New Jersey. Parents are immigrants from Gujarat, the state in the west of India, known as the Small Mahahatma Gandhi Motherland. Now more than 40% of the American hospitality industry is concentrated in the hands of Gujarati Americans.
Although the mother and father of Cala found themselves in the United States, becoming the creator of fragrances in a perfume company and an engineer, they did not interrupted with India and regularly sent her son there on vacation. Knowledge of the biographies of parents and Language Gujarati helped Penna in shooting in the Indian film "TEZK".
From school bench Cal showed artistic inclinations - participated in theatrical productions and played on the bariton-saxophone. However, at the insistence of the father, the guy learned to the University of California not only on the actor, but also on a sociologist.
Personal life
In the 2008 Presidential Campaign Cal supported Barack Obama. After the victory of the dark candidate in elections, the actor was offered to take the position of assistant Director of the Public Relations Office. Cal accepted the proposal, but leaving the post at the time of filming in Harold and Kumara Christmas ". In August 2017, the actor left the presidential committee on art in protest against Donald Trump policy.Surprisingly, such a public person, like Penn, will manage to keep his personal life behind the curtain. According to rumors, the actor lives with an American Indian origin, but the name of the Calle's friend is unknown. A man whose growth is 178 cm, leads a page in "Instagram", but it prevailed photos from official ceremonies and filming.
Films
Cali's acting debut took place in 1998 in the comedy short film "Express: the path to glory." In the next 3 years, he appeared in such serials as "Buffy - Vampire Slayer", "Sabrina is a small witch" and "ambulance".
In 2002, Cal played the hero of the tape "King Parties" with the water-wing name Taj Badalandabad, to which Sikvel was filmed after 4 years. The famous actor did a youth comedy "Harold and Kumar go to the gap", who also glorified the colleagues of Penna John Cho and Neal Patrick Harris. The adventures of funny "Rolling" continued in the ribbons "Harold and Kumar - 2: Escape from Guantanamo" and "Devilian Christmas Harold and Kumara".
Penn effectively connected to the final seasons of the TV series "Dr. House", "How I met your mother" and the "Theory of the Big Explosion". The first of them gave Cala to acquaintance with Amber Tamblin, however, when the actor received a proposal to work in the administration of Barack Obama, his character of Dr. Campbell "had to kill. The third of these series gave the name of the transmission on the Discovery channel, which from May 2013 is a native of Montcher.
Periodically, Penn participates in Indian projects. In addition to the "Testa", this is "Bhopal: Prayer about the rain", telling about the technogenic catastrophe of 1984, and a fantasy Indo-American thriller "Ashram".
Cal Penn now
The political experience already used by Calle when shooting the TV series "Last Candidate", again came in with the actor in 2019. In the fall, the NBC channel began to demonstrate a multi-sieuled comedy "sunny side", in which Penn performed as a producer and the executor of the leading role. According to the story of the same name of the artist Garrett Modo finds a call to help immigrants. Due to low ratings after three episodes, the show was interrupted, and the remaining 8 episodes were posted in open access on the Internet.
The coronavirus infection pandemic interrupted in 2020, the shooting of the Clarice series, in which Penn planned to create an image of Emina Grigoryan. The multi-sieuled tape is named after the main character, the very Clarisa Starling, which has found an approach to Ganibal Lecter in a detective thriller "Silence of the Lambs".
During the presidential primaries of 2020, Cal publicly showed interest in such candidates as Open Gay Peter Buttijich, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. All listed politicians later reported an exit from the presidential race.
Filmography
- 1999 - "Buffy - Vampire Slayer"
- 2002 - "King Party"
- 2004 - "Harold and Kumar go to the gap"
- 2005 - "More than love"
- 2006 - "Return of Superman"
- 2006 - "King Party 2"
- 2006 - "Tester"
- 2008 - "Harold and Kumar 2: Escape from Guantanamo"
- 2007-2009 - "Dr. House"
- 2011 - "Deban Christmas Harold and Kumara"
- 2011 - "How I Met Your Mother"
- 2016-2019 - "Last Candidate"
- 2018 - "Ashram"
- 2019 - "The Theory of Big Bang"
- 2019 - "Sunny Side"
- 2021 - Clarice.