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Rizwan "Riz" Ahmed (Urdu pronunciation: [ɾɪzˌwɑːnˈɛɦˌməd̪]; born 1 December 1982) is a British actor and rapper. He has received several awards, including an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, with nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and two British Academy Film Awards. In 2017, he was named in the Time Listing of the most influential people in the world. 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. As an activist, Ahmed is known for his political rap music, has been involved in raising awareness and funds for Rohingya and Syrian refugee children, and has advocated 'BAME' representation at the House of Commons. Description above from the Wikipedia article Riz Ahmed, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Riz Ahmed
Dr. James Beckett
for Dr. James Beckett in A Space Odyssey
Suggested by islington
A Reboot of the 2001: A Space Odyssey franchise. Synopsis: An imposing black structure provides a connection between the past and the future. Characters: Dr. James Beckett - The main protagonist. Loosely based on Dr. Dave Bowman from the original film. Isla Griffith - An astronaut aboard the Spectrum X on the first mission to Jupiter. Heavily based on Dr. Frank Poole from the original film. Dr. Perla Hadley - An astronaut who is tracking down the source of the black alien structure found on the Earth's moon. Loosely based on Dr. Heywood Floyd from the original film. HAL 9000 - The main antagonist. An artificial intelligence computer ran by aliens. Rhett Lincoln - An astronaut aboard the Spectrum X. Phil (chief man-ape) - The chief of the man-ape tribe. Heavily based on Moonwatcher from the original film. Orion (man-ape) - A man-ape from the tribe. Harold Bishop - President of NASA.
