Daniel Mark Pudi (born March 10, 1979) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Abed Nadir on the NBC sitcom Community (2009–2015), for which he received three nominations for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and one nomination for the TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Comedy. Since 2020 he has starred as Brad Bakshi in the Apple TV+ comedy series Mythic Quest. He played the lead role in The Tiger Hunter, a comedic and warmhearted independent film surrounding the immigrant experience directed by Lena Khan in 2016 and funded through a Kickstarter campaign. His short film, Running, which he wrote himself, follows Pudi as he sets out on a mission to solve the puzzle of his father and finds himself instead on a complex, funny, and vulnerable journey of self-discovery and acceptance.

Filmography

• Golden Axe — Hampton Squib (voice)
• President Curtis — Amil Bhattam (voice)
• Going Dutch — Major Abraham Shah
• 2025Prep & Landing: The Snowball Protocol — Chef Geoff (voice)
• Avatar: The Last Airbender — The Mechanist, Sai
• Rock, Paper, Scissors — Recyclable Prince (voice)
• Carol & the End of the World — (voice)
• Clone High — Dr. Neelankavil (voice)
• 2023Corner Office — Rakesh
• Kiff — Nick Namé (voice), Nick Namé / Pete (voice), Dean Kim (voice)
• Krapopolis — Orphan (voice)
• 2023Somebody I Used to Know — Benny
• Strange Planet — Regular (voice)
• 2022American Dreamer — Craig
• Chibiverse — Huey Duck (Voice), Huey Duck (voice)
• 2022Running — Himself, Writer
• Transformers: EarthSpark — Bumblebee (voice)
• Calls — Dr. Burman (voice)
• 2021Flora & Ulysses — Miller
• Home Economics — Brian
• Monsters at Work — Evan (voice)
• 2020Coffee Shop Names — Deepak
• 2020Community Table Read — Abed Nadir
• Mythic Quest — Brad Bakshi, Director
• 2020The Argument — Brett
• 2019Babysplitters — Jeff Penaras
• Craig of the Creek — Ravi (voice)
• 2018Curated — Tim
• 2018DuckTales: Destination Adventure! — Huey Duck (voice)
• 2018Good Girls Get High — Mr. D
• Impulse — Beanie
• Summer Camp Island — Cookiesmell (voice)
• 2017After the Sun Fell — Adam
• Do You Want to See a Dead Body?
• DuckTales — Huey Duck (Voice)
• Powerless — Teddy
• 2017Smurfs: The Lost Village — Brainy (voice)
• The Guest Book — Tim
• 2017The Tiger Hunter — Sami Malik
• Angie Tribeca — Garth Tweedner
• Better Things — Danny
• Great Minds with Dan Harmon — Buddha
• 2016Six Seasons and a Finale — Self, Thanks
• 2016Star Trek Beyond — Fi'Ja
• 2016The Hindenburg Explodes! — The Great Tony
• Dr. Ken — Topher
• 2015Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant — Nathan Vignes
• 2014Advanced Television Production - 5 Days, 2 Scripts, No Sleep — Self, Thanks
• 2014Captain America: The Winter Soldier — Com Tech #1
• 2014Knights of Badassdom — Lando
• 2014The Pretty One — Dr. Rao
• 2014Untucked — Director
• 2013Vijay and I — Rad
• 2012Flatland²: Sphereland — Puncto (voice)
• 2012Leader of the Pack — Doug
• 2012The Guilt Trip — Sanjay
• 2011Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil — Little Boy Blue (voice)
• Hot in Cleveland — Tommy
• Community — Abed Nadir
• 2009Nilam Auntie: An International Treasure — Melvin the online surfer
• 2009Road Trip: Beer Pong — Arash
• Chuck — Vali Chandrasekaren
• Greek — Sanjay
• Robot Chicken — Ant Pharaoh / Fox's Boxes Customer (voice)
• Gilmore Girls — Staffer, Raj
• The West Wing — Santos Aide
• The Simpsons — Johnson Bryans (voice)
• Patel — Executive Producer
• Untitled Community Movie — Abed Nadir

Appearances as themselves (9)

• After Midnight — Self
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire — Self - Contestant
• Carpool Karaoke: The Series — Self
• 2014Harmontown — Self
• 2014Lennon or McCartney — Self
• @midnight with Chris Hardwick — Self
• 2012Six Seasons and A Movie: A Community Art Show — Self
• The Soup — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest