Kal Penn

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Kalpen Suresh Modi, better known by his screen name Kal Penn (born April 23, 1977 in Montclair, New Jersey) is the actor who portrayed Dr. Lawrence Kutner, one of the three new fellows House keeps on at the beginning of Season 4. Penn left the series in Season 5 to take a staff position at the White House in the Barack Obama administration.

Penn has over 40 television and movie credits, but became the best known Indian-American actor in Hollywood after his successful turn in Harold & Kumar go to White Castle in 2004 with his good friend and House guest star John Cho. Harold & Kumar was perhaps the first American film to feature main characters who were neither European or African-American. It made back twice its budget of $9 million. The much anticipated sequel Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay was released in 2008. Ironically, in Harold & Kumar, Penn plays a young man who does not want to become a doctor like his father and brother.

However, Penn has kept busy since his success.

Penn left House to work as the Associate Director in the White House Office of Public Liason.