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- Split his first name in two to form his professional moniker.
- Is a vegetarian and ateveggie burgers during the filming of his hit comedy Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.
- In addition to guest spots on shows such as Six Feet Under, Spin City and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, he appeared in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off, Angel.
- When he was in 8th grade he was in a school production of the musical, The Wiz.
- Kal penn majored in Film and Sociolgy while he was at UCLA.
- Kal Penn attended the Fine and Performing Arts Center at Howell High School in Farmingdale, New Jersey.
- Kal Penn is 5 feet 11 inches tall.
- Kal Penn is of Gujarati Indian descent.
- Kal volunteered extensively for the Barack Obama presidential campaign and left the cast of House to work for the president in the White House.
- In April 2009, Penn told Entertainment Weekly Magazine that the writers killed off his character on "House M.D." (2004) because he had asked to be allowed to leave the show to go work for the Barack Obama Administration as the Associate Director in the White House Office of Public Liaison.
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