Adeel Akhtar
Actor
Adeel Akhtar plays Ermolai Lopakhin.
Theatre includes: A Christmas Carol (West End); Hamlet (Young Vic); Satyagraha (Improbable); Wuthering Heights (Tamasha); In My Name (Old Red Lion/Trafalgar Studios); and Zero (Theatre Absolute).
TV includes: Showtrial (series two); Fool Me Once; Sweet Tooth (Children’s and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Performance); Sherwood (BAFTA and RTS Awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role); Killing Eve; Back to Life; Les Miserables; Ghosted; Counterpart; Unforgotten; The Last Dragon Slayer; The Circuit; Apple Tree Yard; Murdered By My Father (BAFTA for Best Actor); The Night Manager; Capital; River; Flowers; Utopia (BAFTA Best Actor nomination); The Job Lot; Trollied; The Angelos Epithemiou Show; Hooked - Coming Up Season; Trial & Retribution; and Britz.
Films include: Murder Mystery 2; Enola Holmes 2; Save the Cinema; Ali & Ava (British Independent Film Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Best Actor nomination); The Nest; Enola Holmes; Everybody’s Talking About Jamie; The Electrical Life of Louis Wain; Murder Mystery; Swimming with Men; Victoria and Abdul; The Big Sick; Hampstead; Pan; War Book; Convenience; Jadoo; The Dictator; Four Lions; and Traitor.
(Photo of Adeel Akhtar by Sarah Cresswell)