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08/08/2017 – Akhtar – 2017 Summer TCA Tour – Day 16 – Fox Press Tour – Arrivals – The Beverly Hilton Hotel, 9876 Wilshire Boulevard – Beverly Hills, CA, USA – Photo Credit: / PRPhotos.com
Birth Name: Adeel Hamayun Akhtar
Place of Birth: Hammersmith, London, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 18 September, 1980
Ethnicity: Pakistani-Kenyan
Adeel Akhtar is a British actor. His roles include the films Traitor (2008), Four Lions , Stranger Things (2010), The Dictator (2012), Jadoo , Convenience , War Book , Pan (2015), The Big Sick , Hampstead , Victoria & Abdul , Swimming with Men , Murder Mystery (2019), and its sequel; The Nest (2020), Enola Holmes , and its sequel; Ali & Ava , Everybody’s Talking About Jamie , The Electrical Life of Louis Wain , and Save the Cinema ; the series Angelos Epithemiou’s Moving On , Trollied , The Job Lot , Utopia , River , Capital , The Night Manager , Unforgotten , Apple Tree Yard , Ghosted , Fairy Job , Counterpart , Les Misérables , Back to Life , Killing Eve , Sweet Tooth , Sherwood , Fool Me Once , Showtrial , Black Doves , and Down Cemetery Road ; and the made-for-tv movies Murdered by My Father and The Last Dragonslayer .
His father is from Pakistan. His mother is from Kenya.
Adeel’s maternal grandfather’s surname was Kassam.