Name
Riz Ahmed
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1982-12-01 (44 years old)
Place of Birth
Wembley, London, England, UK
Biography
Rizwan Ahmed (born 1 December 1982) is a British actor and rapper. He has received several awards, including an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, and nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and two British Academy Film Awards. In 2017, he was named by Time as one of the most influential people in the world. He also created the TV series Englistan in 2018 for the BBC, which was also his writing debut.
After studying acting at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Ahmed began his acting career with independent films such as The Road to Guantanamo (2006), Shifty (2008), Four Lions (2010), Trishna (2011), and The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012). He had his break-out role in Nightcrawler (2014), which led to roles in the 2016 big-budget films Jason Bourne and Rogue One. For starring as a young man accused of murder in the HBO miniseries The Night Of (2016), Ahmed won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series. He received another Emmy nomination in the same year for his guest role in Girls. He went on to play Carlton Drake in the superhero film Venom (2018) and a drummer who loses his hearing in the drama film Sound of Metal (2019). The latter earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He produced, co-wrote, and starred in Mogul Mowgli (2020), which earned a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film.
As a rapper, Ahmed is a member of the Swet Shop Boys, and has earned critical acclaim with the hip-hop albums Microscope and Cashmere, and commercial success featuring in the Billboard 200 chart-topping Hamilton Mixtape, with his song "Immigrants (We Get the Job Done)" winning an MTV Video Music Award. His second studio album, The Long Goodbye, was accompanied by a short film of the same name, which won him the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.
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- 2008 Shifty as Shifty
- 2025 Relay as Ash
- 2006 The Road to Guantanamo as Shafiq
- 2010 Centurion as Tarak
- 2009 Rage as Vijay
- 2010 Four Lions as Omar
- 2011 Trishna as Jay
- 2009 Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam as Self
- 2011 Black Gold as Ali
- 2023 Dammi as Mounir
- 2012 Ill Manors as Aaron
- 2007 Britz as Sohail Wahid
- 2023 Nimona as Ballister Boldheart (voice)
- 2009 Freefall as Gary
- 2023 Fingernails as Amir
- 2013 Out of Darkness as Male
- 2013 Closed Circuit as Nazrul Sharma
- 2014 Nightcrawler as Rick
- 2017 Una as Scott
- 2016 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story as Bodhi Rook
- 2025 The Phoenician Scheme as Prince Farouk
- 2016 Jason Bourne as Aaron Kalloor
- 2016 City of Tiny Lights as Tommy Akhtar
- 2026 Digger as Ganesh
- 2008 Baghdad Express as Talal
- 2006 Banglatown Banquet as Razual
- 2018 The Sisters Brothers as Hermann Kermit Warm
- 2018 Venom as Carlton Drake / Riot
- 2020 Sound of Metal as Ruben Stone
- 2017 The Stories: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' as Self
- 2013 The Reluctant Fundamentalist as Changez
- 2020 Mogul Mowgli as Zed
- Soon Exit West as Saeed
- 2021 The Long Goodbye as Riz
- 2021 Encounter as Malik Khan
- Soon Violent Talent
- 2021 Lines
- 2026 Hamlet as Hamlet
- 2025 Together for Palestine as Self
- Soon Growth
- Soon The Big Fix
- 2026 The Name of Action as Self
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 2 episodes ) as Self - Guest
- 2008 Dead Set ( 5 episodes ) as Riq Rahman
- 2012 Girls ( 2 episodes ) as Paul-Louis
- 2006 The Play's the Thing ( 1 episode )
- 1996 The Daily Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 2011 The Jonathan Ross Show ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 2015 The Late Late Show with James Corden ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show ( 1 episode ) as Self - Musical Guest
- 2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1953 The Oscars ( 4 episodes ) as Self
- 2016 The Night Of ( 8 episodes ) as Nasir 'Naz' Khan
- 2006 The Path to 9/11 ( 2 episodes ) as Yosri
- 2008 Wired ( 3 episodes ) as Manesh Kunzru
- 2016 The OA ( 5 episodes ) as Elias Rahim
- 2014 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2007 Britz ( 2 episodes ) as Sohail
- 2015 Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2018 The Big Narstie Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2026 Bait ( 6 episodes ) as Shah Latif
- 2014 Off Camera with Sam Jones ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2019 The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2007 The Graham Norton Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 4 episodes ) as Self - Guest
- 2009 10 Minute Tales ( 1 episode ) as Joseph
- 2026 Saturday Night Live UK ( 1 episode ) as Self - Host
- 2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2026 Behind The Mic: The Making of The Harry Potter Full-Cast Audio Editions ( 2 episodes ) as Himself
