Kunal Nayyar
Kunal Nayyar (born April 30, 1981, London, United Kingdom), aged 45, is a British actor. Nayyar is best known for Ice Age: Continental Drift.
Kunal Nayyar’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rooster, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rooster, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Kunal
Kunal Nayyar’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Scholar
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Kunal in the U.S.?
#11430
US rank in 2025
~1,259
Americans share it since 1977
1994
its peak year
Kunal ranked 3,328th in 1981, the year of this birth, with 13 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Kunal’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
6
Soul Urge · being needed
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on K (2) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Kunal’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 5 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Blush · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1981, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Kunal apart
Kirsten Dunst (1982) and Claude Shannon (1916) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
What the chart says
Kunal, according to the stars
Core essence
Kunal is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Kunal is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Kunal is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Kunal needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Kunal wants to be loved
Kunal wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Kunal is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Kunal creates
How Kunal makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Kunal creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Kunal is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Kunal is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Kunal is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Kunal's birth date. Working below.
Where Kunal sits
Six lines
Kunal’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Kunal Nayyar
Three stars chosen from the real sky above London on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over London that night
Computed for 51.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Merak stood nearest the zenith over London at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.7° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
At 51.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from London at all: they sit past the −38.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 16% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 5° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- London, United Kingdom
- Lives in
- Los Angeles
Wikidata records Los Angeles as Kunal Nayyar's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Kunal Nayyar: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Kunal's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Taurus · Five planets retrograde
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Kunal Nayyar's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 30, 1981, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Metal Rooster
Metal RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
Kunal Nayyar was born on April 30, 1981, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Kunal Nayyar's birth date, April 30, 1981, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Kunal’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Kunal Nayyar's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of about 2°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Kunal Nayyar combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Scholar.
Kunal’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 25° Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.1° orb
Kunal’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.3° to 3.2° orb
Kunal’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn2.5° orb
Kunal’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.7° to 3.9° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus2.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus5.9° to 6.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars6.0° to 6.3° orb
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 10.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 13.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 1.4° to 14.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 3.7° to 17.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Kunal’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 17°28′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 24°53′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 14°13′ (moves 0.54° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 12°42′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 13°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 0.3°
- Eros sextile Mercury 0.9°
- Chiron conjunction Venus 1.5°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.8°
- Ceres square Pluto 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 2.4°
Kunal’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus13 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun3 pts
3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Kunal’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, Venus, MarsThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun biquintile Saturn 0.0°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 0.2°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.5°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.6°
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 2.3°
More people like Kunal
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Born in United Kingdom
- Jamie DornanNorthern Irish actor
- Ant AnsteadEnglish television presenter, motor specialist and designer
- Eddie RedmayneEnglish actor
- Rishi SunakFormer Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2022 to 2024 and Leader of the Conservative Party
- William, Prince of WalesHeir apparent to the throne of the United Kingdom and 14 Commonwealth Realms
- Gwendoline ChristieBritish actress (born 1978)
More charts like Kunal’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Miles KillebrewAmerican football player (born 1993)
- Morgan CoxAmerican football player (born 1986)
- Tony PollardAmerican football player (born 1997)
Born in Rooster years
- Clare CrawleyAmerican television personality
- Todd Chrisleystar of the reality show Chrisley Knows Best
- Emilie de RavinAustralian actress (born 1981)
Also born on April 30
- Kirsten Dunst1982
- Claude Shannon1916
- Ana de Armas1988
- Travis Scott1991
- Jane Campion1954
- Mac DeMarco1990
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Tim PatrickAmerican football wide receiver
- Micah ParsonsAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Bailey ZappeAmerican football player (born 1999)
Other Taurus Rooster charts
- Justin ThomasAmerican golfer
- Oliver BearmanBritish racing driver (born 2005)
- C. P. RadhakrishnanVice President of India since 2025
- James MasonBritish actor
Other Steadfast Scholars
- Draymond GreenAmerican basketball player (born 1990)
- Quinten PostDutch basketball player (born 2000)
- Dejounte MurrayAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
- Mohamed BambaAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Willie GayAmerican football linebacker
- Marvin MimsAmerican football player (born 2002)
- Quinn MeinerzAmerican football player (born 1998)
From the journal: Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal · Astrology vs astronomy: when and why they separated
Kunal’s cards
Computed from April 30, 1981. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
8 · Achiever♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Kunal’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q310375 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by karihaley, CC BY-SA 1.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Kunal Nayyar.
Quick answers about Kunal Nayyar’s chart
- How old is Kunal Nayyar?
- Kunal Nayyar is 45 years old, born April 30, 1981 in London, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Kunal Nayyar?
- Kunal Nayyar is a Taurus: born April 30, 1981, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Kunal Nayyar's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 30, 1981 birth.
- What is Kunal Nayyar's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Kunal Nayyar's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Kunal Nayyar's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Kunal Nayyar's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
