Riz Ahmed
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.
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Exit West
as Saeed
Digger
as Ganesh
Bait
as Shah Latif
Saturday Night Live UK
as Self - Host
Hamlet
as Hamlet
The Name of Action
as Self
Together for Palestine
as Self
Relay
as Ash
The Phoenician Scheme
as Prince Farouk
Fingernails
as Amir
Dammi
as Mounir
Nimona
as Ballister Boldheart (voice)
The Jennifer Hudson Show
as Self - Guest
Encounter
as Malik Khan
The Long Goodbye
as Riz
Lines
as Unknown
Sound of Metal
as Ruben Stone
Mogul Mowgli
as Zed
The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan
as Self
The Sisters Brothers
as Hermann Kermit Warm
The Big Narstie Show
as Self
The Stories: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'
as Self
Una
as Scott
The OA
as Elias Rahim
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
as Bodhi Rook
City of Tiny Lights
as Tommy Akhtar
Jason Bourne
as Aaron Kalloor
The Night Of
as Nasir 'Naz' Khan
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
Off Camera with Sam Jones
as Self
Out of Darkness
as Male
Closed Circuit
as Nazrul Sharma
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
as Changez
Ill Manors
as Aaron
Girls
as Paul-Louis
Black Gold
as Ali
Trishna
as Jay
The Jonathan Ross Show
as Self
Four Lions
as Omar
Centurion
as Tarak
10 Minute Tales
as Joseph
Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam
as Self
Rage
as Vijay
Freefall
as Gary
Dead Set
as Riq Rahman
Shifty
as Shifty
Wired
as Manesh Kunzru
Britz
as Sohail Wahid
Britz
as Sohail
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
The Path to 9/11
as Yosri
Banglatown Banquet
as Razual
The Road to Guantanamo
as Shafiq
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self - Musical Guest
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest
The Daily Show
as Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self
The Oscars
as Self