Age: 45
male
Akhtar is known for the bumbling Muslim extremist Faisal in Chris Morris's film Four Lions. Other comedic performances include Gupta in The Angelos Epithemiou Show, Maroush in The Dictator and Smee in Joe Wright and Pan. Akhtar has also won acclaim for his dramatic performances: in 2015, he was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor for his 2014 role as Wilson Wilson on Channel 4's Utopia. He played shopkeeper Ahmed alongside Toby Jones in the BBC mini-series Capital, and DS Ira King in the BBC's River. Reviewing River in The Daily Telegraph, Michael Hogan wrote, "This series was beautifully written by Abi Morgan, stylishly directed, and most of all, superbly acted. The quieter, less showy supporting players also shone. Not just stalwarts [...] but fresher faces: Adeel Akhtar as River's endlessly patient sidekick and Georgina Rich as his psychiatrist". In 2016 Akhtar appeared as Shahzad in the BBC one-off drama Murdered by My Father. He won the 2017 BAFTA award for Lead Actor for this role, the first non-white actor to do so. He also appeared as Rob Singhal in the acclaimed BBC miniseries based on John le Carré's The Night Manager. Adeel became a patron of Half Moon Theatre in autumn 2016.
Adeel Akhtar
Dr. Charlie Hill
for Dr. Charlie Hill in Rosemary's Baby
Suggested by danselunaire
Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse are a young married couple. He is an actor, waiting for his big break; She dreams of a bourgeois normality made of economic security, a nice house, so many children. After a long search they found an apartment in the Bramford - a historic building in the heart of Manhattan, surrounded by an aura of social prestige but also by sinister legends - and soon their lives seems to achieve a breakthrough: Guy gets a major part in a comedy and Rosemary is finally pregnant with their first child. But not everything is destined to go the right way. Rosemary's pregnancy is troubled by nightmares and premonitions, by unexplained abdominal pain and strange encounters, and especially by the invasion of two neighbors, who are too considerate not to be suspicious...
