Aasif Mandvi
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The ThumbScore for Aasif Mandvi (60.7%) is the average audience approval rating across 11 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Aasif's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
Aasif Hakim Mandviwala, known professionally as Aasif Mandvi (, AH-sif MAHND-vee), is a British actor. He was a correspondent on The Daily Show from 2006 to 2017. Mandvi's other television work includes the HBO comedy series The Brink and the CBS/Paramount+ psychological drama Evil. His film roles include playing Mr. Aziz in Spider-Man 2 and Commander Zhao in The Last Airbender. His stage work includes appearing on Broadway as Ali Hakim in Oklahoma! and in productions of Disgraced (2012), which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2013.
Mandvi was born in Bombay, in Maharashtra, India, into a Gujarati Muslim family of the Dawoodi Bohra caste. His family moved to England, when he was a year old, settling in the West Yorkshire city of Bradford. His father, Hakim, who had originally come to work in textiles research at Bradford University, later ran a corner shop. His mother, Fatima, was a nurse. Mandvi attended the independent Woodhouse Grove School in Apperley Lane, and he identifies as a "working-class kid from Bradford". In the early 80s, his father grew frustrated with Margaret Thatcher's administration and moved his family to the United States, settling in Tampa, Florida; when Mandvi was 16. He attended Chamberlain High School in Hillsborough County, graduating in 1984.
Born 1966-03-05 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
On ThumbScore, Aasif Mandvi appears in 11 films with an average audience score of 60.7%, most frequently in the Comedy genre.
