Kal Penn Trading Places And Heading To White House

04/08/2009:
Indian American actor Kal Penn is heading to the White House as the associate director in the White House Office of Public Liaison. Kal will be working in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, located next to the West Wing and housing most of the White House staff. Born in Montclair, New Jersey, Kal Penn has acted in major Hollywood and Bollywood movies and has been part of TV shows. He acted in movies like Mira Nair's The Namesake (2007) , played a terrorist in a recurring role on TV 24, Dr. Lawrence Kutner on Fox network's House (2007 to 2009), American Desi, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, and many others.