Riz Ahmed

Known for ActingBorn 1982-12-01 (age 43)Wembley, London, England, UK

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Riz Ahmed, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Together for Palestine

The Night Of

Daytimer

Out of Darkness

Nimona

Britz

Defiance: Fighting the Far Right

Flee

Sound of Metal

Nightcrawler

Britz

Digger

The OA

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Joyland

10 Minute Tales

Moshari

The Graham Norton Show

Dead Set

Relay

Baghdad Express

Four Lions

The Sisters Brothers

Venom

The Path to 9/11

The Road to Guantanamo

The Long Goodbye

Bait

The Phoenician Scheme

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Wired

The Oscars

You Resemble Me

Black Gold

Jason Bourne

Girls

Mogul Mowgli

Encounter

Ill Manors

Dammi

The Daily Show

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Centurion

The Stories: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Freefall

Fingernails

Una