Actor Shelley Malil Sentenced to Life in Prison

(NewsCore) - Actor Shelley Malil, who is best known for his supporting role in the film "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for stabbing his former girlfriend with a kitchen knife, KNSD-TV in San Diego reported.

Malil, 45, will be eligible for parole in seven years, the report said.

A San Diego jury found the actor -- who played Haziz, Steve Carell's co-worker at the electronics store in the 2005 film -- guilty of premeditated attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and domestic violence in September. He was also convicted of assaulting a man at the San Marcos apartment of his ex-girlfriend Kendra Beebe, 38, in 2008.

Beebe was stabbed more than 20 times.

"I am at a loss for words right now," Malil said in court. "I failed miserably, not only as a human being but as a father, son, uncle, brother, friend. What I did to Kendra, I don't have the words to express my remorse."