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Kausar Mohammed is a Pakistani/Bengali-American actress, writer and comedian.

Kausar got a young start in the entertainment and theater industry and has been keeping busy ever since. She plays series lead in Paul Feig's dramedy, East of La Brea, a show about two Muslim-American twenty somethings navigating their changing LA landscape. Kausar has also worked alongside Taraji P. Henson on the highly anticipated film What Men Want, Issa Rae on Little, and has additional credits on shows like Silicon Valley, Black Lightning, and Nobodies.

She also trains and performs improv/sketch at UCB/Groundlings and is on an all South-Asian sketch comedy team, The Get Brown, that performs regularly at UCB theatre.

Kausar is also the cofounder of Shift, a diversity, inclusion and sexual harassment prevention company.

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