# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kal-penn
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:04:28.218Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kal-penn"
name: "Kal Penn"
slug: "kal-penn"
description: "Kalpen Suresh Modi, known professionally as Kal Penn, is an American actor, author, and former White House staff member in the Barack Obama administration."
tagline: "American actor, author, and former White House staff member in the Barack Obama administration"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kal_Penn%2C_Office_of_Public_Engagement.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1977-04-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           26.599324
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  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "KalPenn"
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/kalpenn/"
    handle:    "kalpenn"
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    handle:    "kalpennofficial"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump