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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

7.401

Enola Holmes 2
2022-11-04

6.646

Traitor
2008-08-23

7

Four Lions
2010-05-07

Save the Cinema

6.2

Save the Cinema
2022-01-14

Murder Mystery 2

6.37

Murder Mystery 2
2023-03-28

6.231

The Dictator
2012-05-15

Stranger Things

8.528

Stranger Things
2013-04-05

The Puppet Asylum

6.6

The Puppet Asylum
2023-09-01

5.8

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

6

Pan
2015-09-24

Murdered by My Father

5.9

Murdered by My Father
2016-03-29

7.323

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

5.955

The Last Dragonslayer
2016-12-25

Victoria & Abdul

6.898

Victoria & Abdul
2017-09-13

0

The Show
2019-06-16

6

Hampstead
2017-06-23

Swimming with Men

6.076

Swimming with Men
2018-07-06

6.258

Murder Mystery
2019-05-25

6.077

The Nest
2020-05-08

7.226

Enola Holmes
2020-09-23

Everybody's Talking About Jamie

6.2

Everybody's Talking About Jamie
2021-09-10

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

6.892

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

7.039

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

0

Utopia
2013-01-15

7.948

Utopia
2013-01-15

7.401

River
2015-10-13

The Angelos Epithemiou Show

7.5

The Angelos Epithemiou Show
2012-07-13

The Night Manager

7.733

The Night Manager
2016-02-21

7.1

Capital
2015-11-24

6.9

Showtrial
2021-10-31

6.341

Ghosted
2017-10-01

6.9

Sherwood
2022-06-13

7.9

Killing Eve
2018-04-08

7.402

Back to Life
2019-04-15

7.3

Les Misérables
2018-12-30

6

Conviction
2006-03-03

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

7.6

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001-09-30

7.141

Fool Me Once
2024-01-01

7.769

Sweet Tooth
2021-06-04

Down Cemetery Road

6.893

Down Cemetery Road
2025-10-29

7.058

Black Doves
2024-12-05

7.326

Flowers
2016-04-25

7.4

Counterpart
2017-12-10

0

Utopia
2013-01-15

7.3

The Job Lot
2013-04-29