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name: "Kunal Nayyar"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "30 April 1981"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T21:15:39.095875+00:00"
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# Kunal Nayyar

Actor. Born 30 April 1981 in London, England.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 30 April 1981, London, England

## Biography

Kunal Nayyar is a British actor. He was born on 30 April 1981 in London and raised in New Delhi, India. He studied business at the University of Portland before earning an MFA in acting from Temple University.

Nayyar is best known for playing Rajesh Koothrappali in the CBS sitcom *The Big Bang Theory* (2007–2019). He has voiced Guy Diamond in the *Trolls* film series, including *Trolls* (2016), *Trolls World Tour* (2020) and *Trolls Band Together* (2023). In 2020 he appeared as Sandeep Singh in the Netflix series *Criminal: UK*, for which he received a BAFTA Television Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 2021.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Trolls Band Together* (2023), Fi1m 58, as Guy Diamond (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/trolls-band-together.md)

## Also known for

- *The Big Bang Theory* (2007), Rajesh Koothrappali
- *Ice Age: Continental Drift* (2012), Gupta (voice)
- *Trolls* (2016), Guy Diamond (voice)
- *NCIS* (2003), Youssef Zidan (uncredited)
- *Trolls World Tour* (2020), Guy Diamond (voice)
- *Spaceman* (2024), Peter
- *Trolls Holiday* (2017), Guy Diamond (voice)
- *Criminal: UK* (2019), Sandeep Singh

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