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Adeel Akhtar (born 18 September 1980) is a British actor. In 2017, he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his role in Murdered by My Father.
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 ...
Adeel Akhtar. Actor: Four Lions. Adeel was born in London on 18th September 1980 to a Pakistani father and a Kenyan mother and attended Cheltenham College throughout the 1990s.
Sep 17, 2022 · The first non-white actor to win the Best Leading Actor in a TV Series BAFTA award, Akhtar's first big break had him playing a terrorist of a different sort. Four Lions was one of the few comedies to take a punch at Islamic terrorism without resorting to debasing racist caricatures.
May 15, 2017 · Adeel Akhtar has made Bafta TV history for being the first non-white best actor winner in the awards' 62-year history. He was recognised for his brilliant, tortured performance in BBC...
Oct 9, 2020 · Adeel Akhtar, 40, won a Leading Actor Bafta for his role in the 2016 BBC drama Murdered by My Father. He has also appeared in the films Murder Mystery and Four Lions, in the BBC adaptation of...
May 14, 2023 · Sherwood star Adeel Akhtar has won Best Supporting Actor at the BAFTA TV Awards. Akhtar beat Slow Horses’ Jack Lowden and White Lotus star Will Sharpe, along with The Crown’s Salim Daw and...
