Baljeet Tjinder (Maulik Pancholy)

Baljeet Tjinder is a character voiced by Maulik Pancholy on Disney's Phineas & Ferb. Pancholy is best known for his roles as Jonathan on 30 Rock, Baljeet Tjinder in Phineas and Ferb, Neal in the first season of Whitney, and as characters named Sanjay Patel in both Weeds and Sanjay and Craig. Pancholy was born in Dayton, Ohio, to Gujarati parents Gita Jayantilal and Navin Chimanlal Pancholy. He moved around while growing up, living in Ohio, Indiana, and Texas before his family settled in Tampa, Florida, where he attended junior high and high school at Berkeley Preparatory School. He is a 1991 graduate of the Berkeley Preparatory School in Tampa, and went on to major in theater at Northwestern University, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1995. He then attended the Yale School of Drama, where he received his Master of Fine Arts in 2003.