Kunal Nayyar

Kunal Nayyar is a British actor known for his role as Raj Koothrappali on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019). He also voiced Vijay on the Nickelodeon animated sitcom Sanjay and Craig (2013–2016). Nayyar has appeared in films such as Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012), The Scribbler (2014), Dr. Cabbie (2014), Consumed (2015), Trolls (2016), and Sweetness in the Belly (2019). He was listed by Forbes as the world's third-highest-paid television actor in 2015 and 2018. Born on 30 April 1981 in Hammersmith, London, Nayyar grew up in New Delhi, India. He attended St. Columba's School and later moved to the United States to pursue a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance from the University of Portland.