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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 18, 1980
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Also Known As
- 아딜 액터
- Adeel Ahktar
- عادل اختر
Adeel Akhtar
1.7 Popularity
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.
Known For
0.0
Angad Singh
National Theatre Live: The Estate
2025
6.6
Hamza
Down Cemetery Road
2025
7.1
Prime Minister Eaves
Black Doves
2024
7.1
Sami Kierce
Fool Me Once
2024
10.0
Readings
Dickens: Phantoms and Fiction
2023
5.0
Amar
The Walk
2023
6.6
The Narrator
The Puppet Asylum
2023
6.4
The Maharajah
Murder Mystery 2
2023
7.3
Lestrade
Enola Holmes 2
2022
7.0
Andy Fisher
Sherwood
2022
Credits
National Theatre Live: The Estate
as Angad Singh
2025
0.0
Down Cemetery Road
as Hamza
2025
6.6
Black Doves
as Prime Minister Eaves
2024
7.1
Fool Me Once
as Sami Kierce
2024
7.1
Dickens: Phantoms and Fiction
as Readings
2023
10.0
The Walk
as Amar
2023
5.0
The Puppet Asylum
as The Narrator
2023
6.6
Murder Mystery 2
as The Maharajah
2023
6.4
Enola Holmes 2
as Lestrade
2022
7.3
Sherwood
as Andy Fisher
2022
7.0
Ali & Ava
as Ali
2022
6.7
Save the Cinema
as Tom
2022
6.2
Showtrial
as Sam Malik
2021
7.0
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
as Dan Rider
2021
6.9
Robin Robin
as Dad Mouse (voice)
2021
7.0
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
as Iman Masood
2021
6.2
Sweet Tooth
as Dr. Aditya Singh
2021
7.8
Enola Holmes
as Lestrade
2020
7.2
The Nest
as Steve
2020
6.1
Raagni - The Movie
as Maulana Wahdi
2019
0.0
🎬
The Show
as Carpenter
2019
0.0
Murder Mystery
as The Maharajah
2019
6.3
Back to Life
as Billy
2019
7.4
Les Misérables
as Thénardier
2018
7.3
Swimming with Men
as Kurt
2018
6.1
Killing Eve
as Martin
2018
7.9
Counterpart
as Casper
2017
7.4
Ghosted
as Dr. Barry Shaw
2017
6.3
Victoria & Abdul
as Mohammed
2017
6.9
Hampstead
as Donald's Lawyer
2017
6.0
The Big Sick
as Naveed Nanjiani
2017
7.3
The Last Dragonslayer
as Mr. Brittles
2016
5.9
The Circuit
as Gabe
2016
7.0
Flowers
as Doctor
2016
7.3
Murdered by My Father
as Shahzad
2016
5.9
The Night Manager
as Rob Singhal
2016
7.8
Capital
as Ahmed
2015
7.2
River
as Ira King
2015
7.4
Convenience
as Shaan
2015
5.8
Pan
as Sam "Smee" Smiegel
2015
6.0
War Book
as Mo
2015
5.1
Keeping Up with the Joneses
as Jerry
2013
5.9
Jadoo
as Vinod
2013
5.7
The Job Lot
as George Dhot
2013
7.3
Stranger Things
as Mani
2013
8.5
Utopia
as Wilson Wilson
2013
8.0
The Angelos Epithemiou Show
as Gupta
2012
7.5
The Dictator
as Maroush
2012
6.2
Four Lions
as Faisal
2010
6.9
Traitor
as Hamzi
2008
6.7
Conviction
as Darpan Banerjee
2006
5.7
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Hazim
2001
7.6