Nationality Indian-American Website NikDodani.com | Years active 2008 - present | |
Occupation Actor, comedian, activist Movies and TV shows The Good Neighbor, Behold My Heart, Atypical, Tooken Similar Kasra Farahani, Robia Rashid, John Asher, Joshua Leonard Profiles | ||
Nik Dodani is an Indian-American actor, comedian, and activist based in Los Angeles. Dodani will soon be recurring on Atypical, a new Netflix original comedy series created by Robia Rashid.
Career
He’s known for his appearances in Freeform’s Kevin From Work and NBC’s The Player, as well as for his role in Joshua Leonard’s upcoming independent film, Behold My Heart, opposite Marisa Tomei, Timothy Olyphant, Charlie Plummer, and Sakina Jaffrey. He performs stand-up comedy across the United States and has had his sets featured in media outlets including BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, and Colorlines, among others.
During the 2016 presidential election, Dodani was a producer for MoveOn.org, where he organized a political comedy project called Laughter Trumps Hate. He previously worked as a consultant at RALLY, an issue advocacy firm based in Hollywood, and as a graphic designer and student organizer on Elizabeth Warren’s 2012 Senate campaign. He studied politics at Occidental College.
In 2015, BuzzFeed described Dodani as one of "14 People Revolutionising India’s Fight For LGBT Rights”. In 2016, The Advocate Magazine listed Dodani as one of "21 Out Actors of Color Hollywood Should Cast as Leading Men”.
