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1. www.ft.com › content › 3e572efb-1686-41f4-a250-7cff7Actor Adeel Akhtar on following his instincts and ‘not being ...

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   Oct 6, 2024 · But Akhtar made no secret of his love of acting, even though British Asians were few and far between in the films and TV shows he watched.

2. www.screendaily.com › features › adeel-akhtar-on-howAdeel Akhtar on how ‘Ali & Ava’ finally allows him the ...

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   Mar 7, 2022 · After years of eye-catching supporting roles in film and TV, Adeel Akhtar finally takes on a title role in Clio Barnard’s Bradford-set romance.

3. www.hellomagazine.com › film › 20220627143988Sherwood: everything to know about Adeel Akhtar | HELLO!

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   Jun 27, 2022 · Viewers are full of praise for Adeel Akhtar’s performance in the show as Andy Fisher - but how much do you know about him in real life?

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   Sep 16, 2024 · With new musical Why Am I So Single? blazing away in the West End, here too is Waleed Akhtar’s touching exploration of friendship. The two couldn’t be more different in style and yet both ...

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   Mar 2, 2022 · For his performance in Ali & Ava, Akhtar won Best Actor at the British Independent Film Awards, adding to the 2017 Bafta for the BBC so-called “honour-killing” drama Murdered by My Father, which...

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   Sep 17, 2022 · Set in a Nottinghamshire mining village, the 2022 BBC crime drama Sherwood tells the story of two shocking killings that spark a massive manhunt. In it, Akhtar plays Andy Fisher, a shy and fragile widower who still struggles to cope with his wife's death.

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   Did Akhtar win a BAFTA & Ali & Ava?

   • For his performance in Ali & Ava, Akhtar won Best Actor at the British Independent Film Awards, adding to the 2017 Bafta for the BBC so-called “honour-killing” drama Murdered by My Father, which made him the first non-white actor to win in a leading role. “Awards are lovely,” he says, “really nice. Do they change anything?”

   Adeel Akhtar: 'Acting - it's got something to do with dignifying myself'

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   Who is Adeel Akhtar?

   • Only registered users or subscribers can comment on this article. After years of eye-catching supporting roles in film and TV, Adeel Akhtar finally takes on a title role in Clio Barnard’s Bradford-set romance.

   Adeel Akhtar on how ‘Ali & Ava’ finally allows him the leading man

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   Does Adeel Akhtar have a stratospheric rise?

   • “There are actors who have a stratospheric rise straight after drama school and there are others that happens to later on,” says Adeel Akhtar, star of Sherwood, Utopia and Fool Me Once, drily noting that he is in the latter category. In his twenties, Akhtar was “unemployed for years”; at 30, to reduce living costs, he set up home in a van.

   Actor Adeel Akhtar on following his instincts and ‘not being a minority

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   Where does Akhtar Live?

   • Akhtar, 44, and I are talking at his publicist’s office in London’s Fitzrovia (he lives south of the Thames in Camberwell). After a string of successful TV and film appearances, it’s safe to say that those lean years are behind him, though experience has taught him not to take anything for granted.

   Actor Adeel Akhtar on following his instincts and ‘not being a minority

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   Is Adeel Akhtar married?

   • Adeel is indeed married, and the pair share one son, but his family is not in the public eye. Speaking about his other half in an interview with The Guardian back in 2018, he joked: "My wife says she married the tired-looking, older, not very fit version of Riz Ahmed." Who does Adeel Akhtar play in Sherwood?

   Sherwood: everything to know about Adeel Akhtar | HELLO!

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   Did Akhtar study law?

   • The London-born son of Pakistani and Kenyan immigrants did, in fact, study law. But fortunately for us, his mother enrolled him in National Youth Theatre classes on the sly, and his love of acting never left him. Akhtar eventually set the law career aside and opted to take up acting instead.

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8. www.backstage.com › uk › magazineAdeel Akhtar on the Importance of Finding Truth - Backstage

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   Sep 22, 2021 · Although he nailed bumbling but lovable characters in cult films and TV shows like Four Lions and Utopia, he won his BAFTA for his powerful and sympathetic portrayal of a man doing the unthinkable...