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Actor Kal Penn Leaving White House for TV Role

His next gig will be on 'How I Met Your Mother'

By John Johnson,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 15, 2011 8:49 AM CDT

(Newser) – Kal Penn is once again leaving behind his job as a bureaucrat to return to acting. Penn, whose big acting chops include Harold and Kumar and House, will leave his White House post in the Office of Public Engagement for a role on How I Met Your Mother, notes Perez Hilton. We'll see whether it sticks: Penn left his government job last year after 11 months to shoot a movie, only to return, notes the Reliable Source column at the Washington Post. For HIMYM fans: Penn will play a love interest to Robin.

Kal Penn in a 2009 file photo.
Kal Penn in a 2009 file photo.   (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
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finkster
Jul 15, 2011 12:15 PM CDT
Actors....Politicians....they're all the same. Read lines and try to make you believe their bull crap. 
tangeri
Jul 15, 2011 9:41 AM CDT
I wonder how they're going to kill off his character on the White House saga.
Riffran
Jul 15, 2011 9:26 AM CDT
Cool. Kumar returns!!!!!!!!! Maybe?
 

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