<p>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.<br /><br />He has also played a terrorist on "24," a brilliant young doctor on "House," 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.<br /><br />After campaigning on behalf of then-candidate Barack Obama in the 2008 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.<br /><br />Penn resigned that post on June 1, 2010 to fulfil his commitment to film the latest, Christmas-themed "Harold and Kumar" film instalment.</p>
<p>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.<br /><br />He has also played a terrorist on "24," a brilliant young doctor on "House," 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.<br /><br />After campaigning on behalf of then-candidate Barack Obama in the 2008 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.<br /><br />Penn resigned that post on June 1, 2010 to fulfil his commitment to film the latest, Christmas-themed "Harold and Kumar" film instalment.</p>