Riz Ahmed
Rizwan "Riz" Ahmed (born December 1, 1982 in Wembley , London ), also known under the stage name Riz MC , is a British actor, MC and musician.
Life
Riz Ahmed's parents come from Karachi , Pakistan , and his father is a shipbroker by trade . Ahmed grew up with an older brother in Wembley and attended the private Merchant Taylors' School in Hertfordshire on a scholarship . He then moved to Christ Church College in Oxford , where he studied philosophy, politics and economics. He then completed an acting training at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
Ahmed began his acting career in the mid-2000s with a leading role in Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross ' award-winning docudrama The Road to Guantanamo , in which he was seen as a terrorist suspect. Other leading roles in film and television followed, including a London cocaine dealer in Shifty (2008) and an Islamic terrorist in the satirical comedy Four Lions (2010). Both films earned him nominations for the British Independent Film Award . In 2012 he took on the lead role in Mira Nair's political thriller The Reluctant Fundamentalist . In the literary adaptation based on the novel by Mohsin Hamid , he can be seen as a Pakistani Princeton graduate Changez, who made a career in the United States but is returning to his home country after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 .
Parallel to his acting career, the avowed Muslim appeared as an MC and musician under the name Riz MC and in 2006 published the satirical song Post 9/11 Blues . His hip-hop debut album MICroscope followed in 2011 .
In 2017 he was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , which awards the Oscars every year. In the same year, he won an Emmy for his lead role as a suspected murder student in the crime series The Night Of .
Filmography
- 2006: The Road to Guantanamo
- 2006: Banglatown Banquet (TV)
- 2006: The Path to 9/11 - Ways of Terror ( The Path to 9/11 , TV)
- 2006: Berry's Way (TV)
- 2007: Jihad in the City ( Britz , TV)
- 2008: Shifty
- 2008: Baghdad Express (short film)
- 2008: Wired (TV series)
- 2008: Dead Set (TV multi-part)
- 2009: Rage
- 2009: Freefall
- 2010: Four Lions
- 2010: Centurion
- 2011: Trishna
- 2011: Black Gold
- 2012: Ill Manors
- 2012: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
- 2013: Under observation (closed circuit)
- 2014: Nightcrawler - Every night has its price (Nightcrawler)
- 2016: Jason Bourne
- 2016: The Night Of ( The Night Of , Miniseries)
- 2016: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
- 2016–2019: The OA (TV series, 5 episodes)
- 2017: Girls (TV series)
- 2018: The Sisters Brothers
- 2018: Venom
- 2019: Sound of Metal
- 2020: Mughal Mowgli
Awards
- 2009: Actor Award of the Geneva Cinéma Tout Ecran for Shifty
- 2012: British “ Shooting Star ” of the European Film Promotion
- 2013: Peace Prize of German Films - Die Brücke (Actor Prize) for The Reluctant Fundamentalist
- 2017: Emmy for The Night Of (Best Actor - Miniseries or TV Movie)
Web links
- Riz Ahmed in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anthony, Andrew: Interview: 'It moves me to see Asian kids with a Rooney shirt . In: The Guardian , October 21, 2007, p. 17.
- ^ A b Green, Thomas H .: Extraordinary double life of a bright British talent . In: The Daily Telegraph , Jan. 29, 2011, pp. 14-15.
- ↑ Class of 2017. oscars.org; accessed on June 30, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ahmed, Riz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ahmed, Rizwan (full name); MC, Riz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British actor, MC and musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st December 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wembley , London |