Entertainment TV Mindy Kaling Reveals Her Surprise TV Show Crush — and Which Celebrity Left Her Starstruck 'The Office' star bonded with fans over nostalgic TV shows after recently joining Threads By Nicholas Rice Nicholas Rice Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE Magazine. He began working with the brand as an Editorial Intern in early 2020, before later transitioning to a freelance role, and then staff positions soon after. Nicholas writes and edits anywhere between 7 to 9 stories per day on average for PEOPLE, spanning across each vertical the brand covers. People Editorial Guidelines Published on August 4, 2024 08:00AM EDT Comments Mindy Kaling. Photo: Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images Mindy Kaling is confessing it all! The actress, 45, recently made her debut on Threads, a social media app created by Instagram, where she has been interacting with fans and responding through voice notes and text prompts about nostalgic television. "If there’s one social media trend I identify with, it’s talking. Luckily, Threads is creating a space to yap about your thoughts and ideas.. So let’s get a convo going," Kaling wrote in one post before asking her followers to reply with their "favorite comfort show." After one user responded that Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: The Next Generation "helped through hard times before, during, and after the [COVID] pandemic," the Emmy nominee replied that she too loved the latter and "wanted to be Deanna Troi," referring to the character portrayed by Marina Sirtis. Kaling then added that she also "had a crush on Data," referencing the male android who was played by Brent Spiner in the series. Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Brent Spiner as Data and Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi in a 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' scene. CBS via Getty Mindy Kaling Says She Could See Her Daughter, 5, Wanting to Enter Show Business: ‘She’s the Star’ In another prompt, Kaling revealed which celebrity left her starstruck throughout her many years in Hollywood: Hugh Laurie. After a user wrote that the actor's series House was her comfort show, even calling it "a little odd perhaps," the mother of three detailed that she and Laurie, 65, had met numerous times when she starred in The Office. The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now! "The Office and House were kind of on around the same time, so we would always run into the cast at different award shows, and I was so starstruck by Hugh Laurie because he was in Sense and Sensibility, the Emma Thompson adaptation of the Jane Austen novel," Kaling said. She added, "It was a real nice overlap of two of my favorite things, grumpy doctors and grump characters from Jane Austen novels." Mindy Kaling. Natasha Campos/Getty Images for Andie Swim Mindy Kaling Reveals If She'd Ever Reprise Her Role as Kelly Kapoor on The Office Reboot (Exclusive) Other responses shared by the producer included some of her recent television favorites (Hacks, Palm Royale and Downton Abbey) as well as her favorite nostalgic comfort watches (X Files, 30 Rock and Gilmore Girls). Kaling also mentioned whether she would ever bring back her popular 2000s fashion blog, “Things I Bought And Loved.” Kaling said, "If there’s an audience for it."