Riz Ahmed

Quick Facts

Full Name	Riz Ahmed
Occupation	Movie Actor
Date Of Birth	Dec 1, 1982(1982-12-01)
Age	42
Birthplace	Wembley
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Riz Ahmed Biography

Riz Ahmed is one of the most popular and richest Movie Actor who was born on December 1, 1982 in Wembley, England, United Kingdom. Bodhi Rook is perhaps best known for his role in 2016 Star Wars anthology movie Rogue One. He also has film credits including Four Lions and Nightcrawler, Jason Bourne, Venom, and Venom. He also starred in the HBO hit miniseries The Night Of as Nasir Khan.

In 2006’s film The Road to Guantanamo, He made his screen debut in director Michael Winterbottom‘s 2006 film The Road to Guantanamo. made his screen debut.

Rizwan Ahmed (born 1 December 1982), also known as Riz MC, is a British actor, rapper, and activist. As an actor, he has won an Emmy Award and has received nominations for a Golden Globe and three British Independent Film Awards. He was initially known for his work in independent films such as The Road to Guantanamo (2006), Shifty (2008), Four Lions (2010), Trishna (2011), Ill Manors (2012), and The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013), as well as television series such as Britz (2007) and Dead Set (2008), before his breakout role in the film Nightcrawler (2014).

In 2006, Ahmed recorded a satirical social-commentary rap track entitled “Post 9/11 Blues”, which was leaked by friends and first gained popularity through the internet. The song was initially banned from British airplay because the lyrics were deemed “politically sensitive”, including satirical references to 9/11, terrorism, the post-9/11 climate, Iraq War, death of Jean Charles de Menezes, MI6, and Belmarsh prison. The resulting press coverage, however, prompted some independent radio stations to play the track. He soon founded his own independent record label, Battered Records, officially releasing “Post 9/11 Blues” for the CD and MP3 formats in August 2006. He went on to win Best MC at the 2006 Asian Music Awards. He released his second single in 2007, the garage rap song “People Like People”. He was selected as a BBC Introducing artist in 2007, playing the Glastonbury Festival and the BBC Electric Proms. He opened the Meltdown Festival with Bristol-based trip-hop group Massive Attack at the Royal Festival Hall in 2008, and was appointed ‘Emerging Artist in Residence’ at the Southbank Centre in London. He played at the London Camp for Climate Action in August 2009.

He was born in London, England to a Pakistani Muslim family. Kamran, his older brother, is a psychiatrist.

Riz Ahmed Net Worth

Riz Ahmed is one of the richest Movie Actor from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Riz Ahmed 's net worth $3 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After completing a degree in philosophy, politics and economics at Christ Church College, University of Oxford he was trained at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama.

He was also a rapper and released his first hip hop album, MICroscope in 2011. He is also the founder of Swet Shop Boys and Heems Of Das Racist, a hip-hop group.

Ahmed was born in Wembley, London, in 1982, to a British Pakistani family. His parents are of Muhajir background; his grandparents migrated from India to Pakistan during the 1947 partition of India. His father is a shipping broker. His parents moved to England from Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, during the 1970s. He is a descendant of Sir Shah Muhammad Sulaiman, the first Indian to become the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court in Uttar Pradesh during the colonial era. Shah Sulaiman also composed Urdu poetry, penned some of the first critical articles on Einstein’s theory of relativity, and was related to Mulla Mahmud Jaunpuri (d. 1652), one of the most important philosopher–scientists from the region during the Mughal Empire.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Riz Ahmed Dating?

According to our records, Riz Ahmed married to Fatima Farheen Mirza. As of December 1, 2023, Riz Ahmed’s is not dating anyone.

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Ahmed is a Muslim. He has spoken candidly about negative stereotyping of Muslims, both in a personal and societal context. As an activist, he has been involved in raising funds for Syrian refugee children and advocating representation at the House of Commons. He has also been involved in raising awareness of the displacement of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, and raising funds for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. In 2013 Ahmed provided journalist Hardeep Singh with a formal apology for a tweet he had published and agreed to pay him substantial damages for libel and his legal costs.

Facts & Trivia

Riz Ranked on the list of most popular Movie Actor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Riz Ahmed celebrates birthday on December 1 of every year.

In 2016, Ahmed played the role of Nasir “Naz” Khan in the HBO miniseries The Night Of, and once again received universal praise for his performance, earning him Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. He also appeared in the final season of Girls, earning him another Emmy nomination. At the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards, Ahmed won the award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his performance in The Night Of, winning over Robert De Niro, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ewan McGregor, Geoffrey Rush and co-star John Turturro. This made Ahmed the first Asian and first Muslim to win in the category, the first South Asian male to win an acting Emmy, and the first Muslim and first South Asian to win a lead acting Emmy; the only previous South Asian to win an acting Emmy was British Asian actress Archie Panjabi for a supporting role in 2010.

Top Facts about Riz Ahmed

1. Riz Ahmed is a British actor and rapper.
2. He was born on December 1, 1982 in London, England.
3. Ahmed has won several awards for his acting performances.
4. He is known for his roles in “Nightcrawler” and “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.”
5. Ahmed also raps under the name Riz MC.
6. His music addresses social issues such as racism and Islamophobia.
7. In 2017, he became the first South Asian man to win an Emmy Award for acting.
8. Ahmed has been vocal about representation of minorities in Hollywood.
9. He graduated from Oxford University with a degree in philosophy, politics and economics.
10. Ahmed is fluent in English, Urdu and Punjabi languages.

What is Riz Ahmed known for?

Riz Ahmed is a British Pakistani actor, rapper and activist. As an actor, he was initially known for his work in independent films such as The Road to Guantanamo (2006), Shifty (2008), Four Lions (2010), Trishna (2011) and Ill Manors (2012), before his breakout role in Nightcrawler (2014), alongside Jake Gyllenhaal.

Is Riz Ahmed deaf?

To familiarise himself with deafness, Ahmed wore modified hearing aids that played white noise in his ear canal so that he couldn’t hear himself speak. That dedication is carried into the film’s sound design.

Did Riz Ahmed win?

Riz Ahmed, the British actor and musician, has won his first Oscar for Aneil Karia’s live-action short film The Long Goodbye, which Ahmed co-wrote and starred in.

Where is Riz Ahmed originally from?

Wembley, United Kingdom

What ethnicity is Dev Patel?

Dev Patel was born on 23 April 1990 in Harrow, the son of Anita, a care worker, and Raju, an IT-consultant. His parents are Gujarati Indian Hindus , though they were both born in Nairobi, Kenya, where there is a significant Indian community; they emigrated to England separately in their teens, and first met in London.