# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kunal-nayyar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:08:50.618Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kunal-nayyar"
name: "Kunal Nayyar"
slug: "kunal-nayyar"
description: "Kunal Nayyar is a British actor who gained recognition for playing Raj Koothrappali on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019). He also voiced Vijay Patel on the Nickelodeon animated sitcom Sanjay and Craig (2013–2016). Nayyar was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 2021 British Academy Television Awards for his role as Sandeep Singh in Netflix anthology series Criminal: UK (2020)."
tagline: "British actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kunal_Nayyar_February_2017.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1981-04-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump