Riz Ahmed

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 breakout role in Nightcrawler 2014 which led to roles in the 2016 bigbudget 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 cowrote 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 hiphop albums Microscope and Cashmere and commercial success featuring in the Billboard 200 charttopping 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Riz Ahmed licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia