Adeel Akhtar

Adeel Akhtar was born on Sep 18, 1980 in UK. Adeel Akhtar's big-screen debut came with Traitor directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff in 2008, strarring Hamzi. Adeel Akhtar is known for Sherwood directed by Clio Barnard, David Morrissey stars as DCS Ian St Clair and Lesley Manville as Julie Jackson. Adeel Akhtar has got 3 awards and 8 nominations so far. The most recent award Adeel Akhtar achieved is Film Club's The Lost Weekend. The upcoming new movie Adeel Akhtar plays is Murder Mystery 2 which will be released on Mar 31, 2023.

Adeel was born in London on 18th September 1980 to a Pakistani father and a Kenyan mother and attended Cheltenham College throughout the 1990s. His father was keen for him to become a lawyer and he obtained a law degree but was more interested in acting and studied at the Actors' Studio in New York. He has made several stage appearances, including as Guildenstern in the Young Vic's 2011 production of 'Hamlet' but is best known for his television performances, being the first non-white actor to bag a BAFTA award as actor in a leading role for the single drama 'Murdered By My Father' and in 2018 will be seen as the villainous Thenardier opposite Olivia Colman and Dominic West in the BBC's serialization of 'Les Miserables'.