

Riz Ahmed
Riz Ahmed is a British actor and rapper. Ahmed's film credits include Shifty, Trishna, Nightcrawler, Jason Bourne, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Venom, and the Apple Original Film Fingernails. He received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for his role in the series The Night Of in 2017. Ahmed also received an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for The Long Goodbye. He starred in the films Sound of Metal. Ahmed has also made music contributions, including one of his most popular songs Once Kings. He is a member of the Swet Shop Boys.
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Riz Ahmed is an Oscar and Emmy-award winning actor and rapper, known for pushing for more nuanced portrayals of South Asians, and especially Muslims, on screen. In his most recent projects, he’s shaking the foundations of British cultural mythology by taking on two roles that have long been definitive for white actors: James Bond and Hamlet. He joins Tom to talk about his new series Bait, where he plays an actor chasing the role of 007, and why he wanted to strip down Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy into something more contemporary for his film Hamlet.
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About
- FROM
- London, England
- BORN
- December 1, 1982