by Stephanie SoteriouBuzzFeedBuzzFeed Staff Kunal Nayyar's recent comments about anonymously donating to strangers on the internet's fundraisers have resurfaced on X - and the reaction to the Big Bang Theory star's quotes is pretty depressing. Jeff Spicer / Getty Images For reference, 44-year-old Kunal shot to fame playing Raj Koothrappali in The Big Bang Theory, which ran from 2007 to 2019. He was eventually earning an estimated $1 million-per-episode on the show, and was ranked as one of TV's highest-paid actors in both 2015 and 2018 by Forbes.