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Adeel Akhtar (born 18 September 1980) is a British actor. In 2017, he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his role in Murdered by My Father. He was also nominated for a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor for his role on Channel 4's Utopia, as well as a British Academy Film Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Ali & Ava.

Adeel Akhtar
Born	(1980-09-18) 18 September 1980 (age 42) London, England
Education	Oxford Brookes University (BA) New School (MFA)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2006–present

Early life

Akhtar was born in London, to a Pakistani father and a Kenyan mother. He was educated at Cheltenham College[1] Junior School from 1991 to 1994 and then moved to Cheltenham College in Newick House from 1994 to 1999. He originally completed a degree in law from Oxford Brookes University in 2002, but decided to follow his passion and change to acting, training at the Actors Studio Drama School, then within The New School, in New York.[2]

Career

Akhtar's first major role was as the bumbling Muslim extremist Faisal in Chris Morris's film Four Lions.[3] Other comedic performances include Gupta in The Angelos Epithemiou Show,[4] Maroush in The Dictator[4] and Smee in Joe Wright 's Pan.[5]

Akhtar has also won acclaim for his dramatic performances: in 2015, he was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor for his 2014 role as Wilson Wilson on Channel 4's Utopia.[6] He played shopkeeper Ahmed alongside Toby Jones in the BBC mini-series Capital,[7] and DS Ira King in the BBC's River.[8] Reviewing River in The Daily Telegraph, Michael Hogan wrote, "This series was beautifully written by Abi Morgan, stylishly directed, and most of all, superbly acted. The quieter, less showy supporting players also shone. Not just stalwarts [...] but fresher faces: Adeel Akhtar as River's endlessly patient sidekick and Georgina Rich as his psychiatrist".[9]

In 2016 Akhtar appeared as Shahzad in the BBC one-off drama Murdered by My Father. He won the 2017 BAFTA award for Lead Actor for this role,[10] the first non-white actor to do so. In 2017 he also took part in the American romantic comedy film The Big Sick, playing the role of the protagonist's brother, Naveed.[11] He appeared as Rob Singhal in the acclaimed BBC miniseries based on John le Carré's The Night Manager.[12] In 2019, Akhtar appeared as Billy in the critically acclaimed BBC Three series, Back to Life, written by Daisy Haggard and Laura Solon, returning in 2021 for the second series.[13]

Filmography

Key

Denotes works that have not yet been released

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Let's Roll: The Story of Flight 93	Hijacker Saeed Al Ghamdi
2008	Traitor	Hamzi
2010	Four Lions	Faisal
2010	Stranger Things	Mani
2012	The Dictator	Maroush
2013	Jadoo	Vinod
2013	Convenience	Shaan
2014	War Book	Mo
2015	Pan	Smee
2017	The Big Sick	Naveed
2017	Victoria & Abdul	Mohammed Bakhsh
2018	Swimming with Men	Kurt
2019	Murder Mystery	Maharajah Vikram Govindan
2020	The Nest	Steve
2020	Enola Holmes	Inspector Lestrade
2021	Ali & Ava	Ali	Nominated - British Academy Film Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
2021	Everybody's Talking About Jamie	Iman Masood
2021	The Electrical Life of Louis Wain	Dan Rider
2022	Save the Cinema	Mayor Tom
TBA	Murder Mystery 2		Post-production[14]
2022	Enola Holmes 2	Inspector Lestrade

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Hazim	Episode: "Dollhouse"
2006	Conviction	Darpan Banerjee	Episode: "Downhill"
2010	Angelos Epithemiou's Moving On	Gupta
2011	Coming Up	Hasan	Episode: "Hooked"
2013–2014	The Job Lot	George
2013	Trollied	Ray	Series 3
2013	The Tunnel	Anwar Rashid	Series 1, 2 episodes
2013–2014	Utopia	Wilson Wilson	Nominated – British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor[15]
2015	River	Detective Sergeant Ira King
2015	Capital[7]	Ahmed Kamal
2016	The Night Manager[16]	Rob Singhal
2016	Murdered by My Father	Shahzad	Television movie Won – British Academy Television Award for Best Actor
2017	Unforgotten	Hassan Mahmoud	Series 2
2017	Apple Tree Yard	Jaspreet	Episodes 3 and 4
2017–2018	Ghosted	Barry	Main cast
2018	Counterpart	Casper
2018	Les Misérables	Monsieur Thénardier
2019	Killing Eve	Martin	Season 2, episodes 5 and 7
2019	Back to Life	Billy
2021	Sweet Tooth	Aditya Singh	Main role Pending – Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Performance
2022	Sherwood	Andy Fisher	BBC miniseries - main cast

Stage

• 2008: The Colonel as Zero (Theatre Absolute)
• 2008: In My Name as Zaeem (Old Red Lion & Trafalgar Studios)
• 2009: Wuthering Heights as Yusuf (Tamasha Theatre Company)
• 2010: Satyagraha (Ensemble) (Improbable theatre)
• 2011–2012: Hamlet as Guildenstern and Francisco (Young Vic Theatre)

Accolades

Award	Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
Children's and Family Emmy Awards	2022	Outstanding Supporting Performance	Sweet Tooth	Pending	[17]

References

Further reading

• Greenstreet, Rosanna (19 May 2018). "Adeel Akhtar: 'My wife says I'm a tired, older version of Riz Ahmed'". The Guardian.

External links

• Adeel Akhtar at the British Film Institute
• Adeel Akhtar at IMDb
• Adeel Akhtar on Stages of Half Moon

На других языках

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[de] Adeel Akhtar

Adeel Akhtar (* 18. September 1980 in London, England) ist ein britischer Schauspieler, bekannt hauptsächlich für seine Rolle als Extremist in Four Lions (2010) und als Geek in Utopia (2013–2014).

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[es] Adeel Akhtar

Adeel Akhtar (Londres, 18 de septiembre de 1980)[1] es un actor británico. En 2017, ganó el BAFTA por su papel en Murdered by My Father.

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