Penn, who served in White House's Office of Public Engagement as an associate director, has taken on a major recurring role on the CBS comedy "How I Met Your Mother," as Kevin, the love interest for Cobie Smulders' lovelorn Robin, according to TVLine.
He has also played a terrorist on "24," a brilliant young doctor on "kalonline geons," a conflicted Indian American man in Mira Nair's "The Namesake," a hilarious stoner in the "Harold & Kumar" franchise and lead roles in two "Van Wilder" frat comedies.
After campaigning on behalf of then-candidate Barack Obama in the 2011 campaign cycle, Penn left the television show "House" in mid-2009 for a similar job in the Office of Public Engagement that began in July of that year(kal online geons).
Penn resigned that post on to fulfil his commitment to film the latest, Christmas-themed "Harold and Kumar" film instalment(kalonline geon).
