Riz Ahmed
Acting
Born 1982-12-01
Wembley, London, England, UK
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Rizwan Ahmed (born 1 December 1982) is a British actor and rapper. He has received several awards, including an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, and nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and two British Academy Film Awards. In 2017, he was named by Time as one of the most influential people in the world. He also created the TV series Englistan in 2018 for the BBC, which was also his writing debut.
After studying acting at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Ahmed began his acting career with independent films such as The Road to Guantanamo (2006), Shifty (2008), Four Lions (2010), Trishna (2011), and The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012). He had his break-out role in Nightcrawler (2014), which led to roles in the 2016 big-budget films Jason Bourne and Rogue One. For starring as a young man accused of murder in the HBO miniseries The Night Of (2016), Ahmed won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series. He received another Emmy nomination in the same year for his guest role in Girls. He went on to play Carlton Drake in the superhero film Venom (2018) and a drummer who loses his hearing in the drama film Sound of Metal (2019). The latter earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He produced, co-wrote, and starred in Mogul Mowgli (2020), which earned a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film.
As a rapper, Ahmed is a member of the Swet Shop Boys, and has earned critical acclaim with the hip-hop albums Microscope and Cashmere, and commercial success featuring in the Billboard 200 chart-topping Hamilton Mixtape, with his song "Immigrants (We Get the Job Done)" winning an MTV Video Music Award. His second studio album, The Long Goodbye, was accompanied by a short film of the same name, which won him the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.
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Acting
54 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Daily Show
The Graham Norton Show
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Girls
WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews
Venom
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Nightcrawler
The Oscars
Off Camera with Sam Jones
The Jonathan Ross Show
The OA
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Jason Bourne
Relay
The Night Of
Bait
The Phoenician Scheme
Digger
Sound of Metal
Nimona
Centurion
The Sisters Brothers
Four Lions
Fingernails
10 Minute Tales
Dead Set
Closed Circuit
The Big Narstie Show
Saturday Night Live UK
Black Gold
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Together for Palestine
The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan
The Path to 9/11
Hamlet
Encounter
Behind The Mic: The Making of The Harry Potter Full-Cast Audio Editions
Wired
Una
Trishna
The Road to Guantanamo
Ill Manors
Mogul Mowgli
Britz
Britz
The Name of Action
Freefall
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