Adeel Akhtar
Acting
Born 1980-09-18
London, England, UK
57 credits
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Akhtar is known for the bumbling Muslim extremist Faisal in Chris Morris's film Four Lions. Other comedic performances include Gupta in The Angelos Epithemiou Show, Maroush in The Dictator and Smee in Joe Wright and Pan.
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. He played shopkeeper Ahmed alongside Toby Jones in the BBC mini-series Capital, and DS Ira King in the BBC's River. 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".
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, the first non-white actor to do so. He also appeared as Rob Singhal in the acclaimed BBC miniseries based on John le Carré's The Night Manager.
Adeel became a patron of Half Moon Theatre in autumn 2016.
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Filmography
Acting
55 credits
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
The Night Manager
Killing Eve
Sweet Tooth
Who Do You Think You Are?
Fool Me Once
The Dictator
Enola Holmes
Enola Holmes 2
Counterpart
Les Misérables
The Big Sick
Black Doves
Utopia
Down Cemetery Road
Conviction
Sherwood
Ghosted
Murder Mystery 2
Murder Mystery
Pan
River
The Nest
Showtrial
Flowers
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Back to Life
Four Lions
Victoria & Abdul
Traitor
Capital
The Job Lot
Robin Robin
Hampstead
The Last Dragonslayer
Swimming with Men
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
Convenience
Ali & Ava
Save the Cinema
Utopia
The Angelos Epithemiou Show
Jadoo
Dickens: Phantoms and Fiction
Keeping Up with the Joneses
National Theatre Live: The Estate
War Book
Murdered by My Father
Stranger Things
The Show
The Puppet Asylum
The Circuit
Raagni - The Movie
The Walk
Utopia
Other credits
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