Aasif Hakim Mandviwala, known professionally as Aasif Mandvi, 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. He 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 ha tenido una carrera de éxito en el cine, la televisión y el teatro. Actualmente, podemos ver a Mandvi como corresponsal en Oriente Medio de "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart", ganadora de un Emmy® y del Peabody, que ahora está en su décimo octava temporada.

La película de Mandvi "Today’s Special", una tierna comedia Tandoori al estilo de Nueva York, que coescribió y que protagoniza, se estrenó en los cines de Estados Unidos en 2010. Mandvi interpreta a Samir, un cocinero de talento que sueña con convertirse en un gran chef francés. Pero cuando se ve obligado a abandonar su sueño y encargarse del restaurante indio de su padre en Jackson Heights, su vida cambia para siempre. La película, cuyo estreno mundial tuvo lugar en el Festival de Cine de Londres de 2009, aborda los temas de la comida, la familia, el amor, la magia y Nueva York.

Su último trabajo ha sido en la comedia "Los becarios", protagonizada por Owen Wilson y Vince Vaughn. Otras interpretaciones recientes incluyen: "Una historia casi divertida" de Focus Features, "Margin Call", "Sin frenos" y "Dark Horse".

También interpretó al comandante Zhao en "Avatar: La leyenda de Aang" de Paramount, del escritor/director M. Night Shyamalan. Pudimos verle en "La proposición" de Disney, junto a Sandra Bullock y Ryan Reynolds. Otros de sus créditos cinematográficos son "Ghost Town" de DreamWorks Pictures, con Greg Kinnear y Ricky Gervais, "Tú la letra y yo la música", con Drew Barrymore y Hugh Grant, el papel protagonista de la película de Merchant/Ivory "The Mystic Masseur", "Pretty Bird"", "Spider-Man 2", "El color del crimen", "The Understudy", "Eavesdrop", "Estado de sitio", "Una terapia peligrosa", "ABCD", "American Chai", "The War Within" y "Sorry, Haters".

En 2008, Mandvi fue elegido unas de las "25 Nuevas Caras del Cine Independiente" del Filmmaker Magazine. También presentó los Gotham Independent Film Awards de 2008 en Nueva York.

Otros de sus créditos en la televisión incluyen papeles recurrentes en el éxito culto de CBS "Jericho", así como apariciones como actor invitado en "Sexo en Nueva York", "Sleeper Cell", "Los Soprano", "The Bedford Diaries", "Oz", "CSI", "Ley y Orden" y "Urgencias".

Mandvi recibió en 1999 el Premio Obie por su show en solitario aclamado por la crítica, "Sakina’s Restaurant". Otros de sus trabajos en los escenarios de Nueva York incluyen el revival de Broadway de 2002 de "Oklahoma!", "Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom", "Homebody/Kabul", "Suburbia", "Trudy Blue" "Speak Truth to Power" y "Disgraced", ganadora de un Premio Pulitzer por la que fue nominado a un Premio Lortel.

Mandvi reside actualmente en Nueva York.