Adeel Akhtar
Adeel Akhtar is an actor, born 1980.
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…
Movies (19)
- The Dictator (2012)
- Enola Holmes (2020)
- Pan (2015)
- Murder Mystery (2019)
- Enola Holmes 2 (2022)
- Murder Mystery 2 (2023)
- The Big Sick (2017)
- The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)
- The Nest (2020)
- Four Lions (2010)
- The Last Dragonslayer (2016)
- Victoria & Abdul (2017)
- Hampstead (2017)
- Traitor (2008)
- Save the Cinema (2022)
- Everybody's Talking About Jamie (2021)
- Raagni - The Movie (2019)
- Robin Robin (2021)
- Ali & Ava (2022)