Adeel Akhtar
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.
The Dictator
as MaroushThe heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to...
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After starting their own detective agency, Nick and Audrey Spitz land a career-making case when...
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On a long-awaited trip to Europe, a New York City cop and his hairdresser wife scramble to solve...
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Enola Holmes
as LestradeWhile searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to...
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Enola Holmes 2
as LestradeNow a detective-for-hire like her infamous brother, Enola Holmes takes on her first official...
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The Big Sick
as Naveed NanjianiPakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle...
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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
as Dan RiderThe extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes...
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Hampstead
as Donald's LawyerEmily Walters is an American widow living a peaceful, uneventful existence in the idyllic...
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Pan
as Sam SmiegelLiving a bleak existence at a London orphanage, 12-year-old Peter finds himself whisked away to...
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Robin Robin
as Dad Mouse (voice)A bird raised by mice begins to question where she belongs and sets off on a daring journey of...
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Jamie New is 16 and doesn’t quite fit in—instead of pursuing a "real" career he dreams of...
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Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of...
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Victoria & Abdul
as MohammedQueen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
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The Last Dragonslayer
as Mr. BrittlesIn a fantasy world where magic is being superceded by technology, an orphaned teen discovers her...
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Traitor
as HamziWhen straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous...
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The Nest
as SteveRory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country,...
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Swimming with Men
as KurtA man who is suffering a mid-life crisis finds new meaning in his life as part of an all-male,...
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Stranger Things
as ManiOona, a recent graduate in anthropology, has returned to her dead mother’s seaside cottage in...
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Ali & Ava
as AliSparks fly after Ali and Ava meet through their shared affection for Sofia, the child of Ali’s...
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Save the Cinema
as TomThe true story of Liz Evans, a hairdresser and leader of a youth theatre in Carmarthen, Wales,...
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Jadoo
as VinodThis comedy revolves around two brothers, both wonderful chefs, who fall out catastrophically....
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Convenience
as ShaanTwo friends attempt to rob a petrol station but are so useless that they end up working there...
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The Puppet Asylum
as The NarratorOtto Baxter, a filmmaker with Down's Syndrome, directs and stars in this musical horror-comedy...
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War Book
as MoGovernment officials practice their response and decisions in a simulated escalation of nuclear...
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The Walk
as AmarPilgrimage or purgatory? Every Wednesday Amar endures a 24-mile round trip on foot to the...
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Murdered by My Father
as ShahzadEvery parent wants the best for their kids, and Shahzad is no exception. Ever since his wife...
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Dickens: Phantoms and Fiction
as ReadingsCaptivating documentary exploring the haunting world of Charles Dickens' supernatural tales...
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Keeping Up with the Joneses
as JerryMP's wife Celia discovers her husband's true colours when she is taken hostage by his criminal...
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Raagni - The Movie
as Maulana WahdiRAAAGNI THE MOVIE - is a British bilingual film for cinema release, dialogues (English /Urdu,...
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Black Doves
as Prime Minister EavesWhen a spy posing as a politician's wife learns her lover has been murdered, an old assassin...
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as HazimThe third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its...
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Killing Eve
as MartinA security consultant hunts for a ruthless assassin. Equally obsessed with each other, they go...
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Sweet Tooth
as Dr. Aditya SinghOn a perilous adventure across a post-apocalyptic world, a lovable boy who's half-human and...
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Fool Me Once
as Sami KierceWhen ex-soldier Maya sees her murdered husband on a secret nanny cam, she uncovers a deadly...
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The Night Manager
as Rob SinghalFormer British soldier Jonathan Pine navigates the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington...
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Sherwood
as Andy FisherOld grudges, new rivalries. A tangled web of murder and revenge spirals in a fractured...
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Ghosted
as Dr. Barry ShawA skeptic is forced to work with a firm believer of the paranormal on unexplained occurrences in...
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Les Misérables
as ThénardierFrance, 1815. Jean Valjean, a common thief, is released from prison after having lived a hell in...
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Conviction
as Darpan BanerjeeA fast-paced character-oriented story, focuses on the lives and loves of the young assistant...
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Utopia
as Wilson WilsonThe Utopia Experiments is a legendary graphic novel shrouded in mystery. When a group of...
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River
as Ira KingRespected police officer John River, a gifted cop with a troubled mind, struggles to come to...
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Capital
as AhmedSet on a single street in South London, Capital is a portrait of a road transformed by soaring...
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Back to Life
as BillyWhen Miri Matteson returns home after eighteen years, can she integrate back into her old life?...
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Showtrial
as Sam GillAn anthology series of hotly contested criminal trials that divides the nation and take place in...
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The Job Lot
as George DhotThe daily troubles of the people who work in a busy West Midlands Job Centre, and the people who...
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The Angelos Epithemiou Show
as GuptaAngelos Epithemiou presents his own six-part studio entertainment show with best mate and...
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