Ismail Bashey

Known for ActingBorn 1970-04-25 (age 56)Bombay, India

Ismail originally hails from Bombay, India where he began his acting career at a fairly young age, taking an active part in every school production from Shakespeare to Moliere. He began performing on stage professionally in Musical Theatre in productions such as Grease; They Are Playing our Song and Best of Broadway. He has trained extensively in jazz ballet under the guidance of Karla Singh and Shiamak Davar. He then moved to New York and began his acting career in the Big Apple. He trained at the Lee Strasberg theater Institute in New York for 3 years. During that time he was working on the local south Asian cable channels such as ITV and ATN as a TV host introducing Music videos and Bollywood tidbits. He then began the auditioning circuit around that time and landed some guest roles in independent features such as the Tic Code (starring Gregory Hines). He also began acting on the popular Zee TV drama Mausam that was filmed in New York and Bombay. He was recently seen in the independent feature film Wings of Hope for which he won Best Actor at the Cinevue International film festival.Read more

Movies & web series

The Illegal

Aks

Ishq Junoon Deewangi

The Sopranos

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

SEAL Team

Boston Legal

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Third Watch

Elementary

CSI: Miami

Homeland

NCIS

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Sleeper Cell

Scandal

Unforgettable

The Village

American Eid

Law & Order

In Plain Sight

Million Dollar Arm

Alias

Sesame Street

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Street

Rosewood

Ms. Marvel

Growing Up Fisher

Ball and Chain

24: Legacy

Little Senegal

The Warrior

The Virgin of Highland Park

Messengers

Close to Home

The Tic Code

Mambo Café

The Guru

ABCD

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

Rollerball

Twisted

Zafar

Desperate Endeavors