When Kunal Nayyar was starring on The Big Bang Theory, audiences saw him as the sweet, awkward Raj Koothrappali—the guy who struggled with dating and delivered punchlines with perfect timing. What viewers didn’t see was what Nayyar was quietly doing once the cameras stopped rolling.
By the later seasons of The Big Bang Theory, Nayyar and his co-stars were earning around $1 million per episode. Forbes consistently ranked him among the world’s highest-paid TV actors, with annual earnings reportedly exceeding $20 million.
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