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Adeel Akhtar
Acting

Adeel Akhtar
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1980-09-18,London, England, UK
Gender
Male
Biography
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.

Filmography

7.414

Enola Holmes 2
2022-11-03

6.658

Traitor
2008-08-23

6.961

Four Lions
2010-05-07

Save the Cinema

6.2

Save the Cinema
2022-01-14

Murder Mystery 2

6.364

Murder Mystery 2
2023-03-28

6.24

The Dictator
2012-05-15

Stranger Things

8.521

Stranger Things
2013-04-05

The Puppet Asylum

6.6

The Puppet Asylum
2023-09-01

5.667

Convenience
2015-10-02

5.1

War Book
2015-08-07

Dickens: Phantoms and Fiction

10

Dickens: Phantoms and Fiction
2023-12-21

5.7

Jadoo
2013-09-06

5.958

Pan
2015-09-24

Murdered by My Father

5.944

Murdered by My Father
2016-03-29

7.322

The Big Sick
2017-03-30

7

The Circuit
2016-08-25

Keeping Up with the Joneses

5.917

Keeping Up with the Joneses
2013-10-18

The Last Dragonslayer

5.902

The Last Dragonslayer
2016-12-25

Victoria & Abdul

6.891

Victoria & Abdul
2017-09-13

0

The Show
2019-06-16

6.064

Hampstead
2017-06-23

Swimming with Men

6.076

Swimming with Men
2018-07-06

6.256

Murder Mystery
2019-05-25

6.1

The Nest
2020-05-08

7.227

Enola Holmes
2020-09-22

Everybody's Talking About Jamie

6.201

Everybody's Talking About Jamie
2021-09-10

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

6.901

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
2021-10-21

Raagni - The Movie

0

Raagni - The Movie
2019-11-15

6.723

Ali & Ava
2022-03-02

7.048

Robin Robin
2021-10-09

5

The Walk
2023-10-04

National Theatre Live: The Estate

0

National Theatre Live: The Estate
2025-11-12

0

Elsinore

8.5

Utopia
2013-01-15

Letters to My Younger Future Self

0

Letters to My Younger Future Self
2026-09-20

7.94

Utopia
2013-01-15

7.407

River
2015-10-13

The Angelos Epithemiou Show

7.5

The Angelos Epithemiou Show
2012-07-13

The Night Manager

7.74

The Night Manager
2016-02-21

7.1

Capital
2015-11-24

6.882

Showtrial
2021-10-31

6.343

Ghosted
2017-10-01

6.906

Sherwood
2022-06-13

7.896

Killing Eve
2018-04-08

7.367

Back to Life
2019-04-15

7.4

Les Misérables
2018-12-30

6

Conviction
2006-03-03

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

7.576

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001-09-30

7.127

Fool Me Once
2024-01-01

7.754

Sweet Tooth
2021-06-04

Down Cemetery Road

6.83

Down Cemetery Road
2025-10-29

7.069

Black Doves
2024-12-05

7.34

Flowers
2016-04-25

7.456

Counterpart
2017-12-10

0

Utopia
2013-01-15

7.273

The Job Lot
2013-04-29

Who Do You Think You Are?

6.981

Who Do You Think You Are?
2004-10-12