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Rizwan "Riz" Ahmed (Urdu pronunciation: [ɾɪzˌwɑːn ˈɛɦˌməd̪]; 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 .
The Night Of is a 2016 American eight-part crime drama miniseries based on the first season of Criminal Justice, a 2008 British series. [2] The miniseries was written by Richard Price and Steven Zaillian (based on the original Criminal Justice plot by Peter Moffat), and directed by Zaillian and James Marsh. [3]
Ahmed earned Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, British Academy Film Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for his performance. He received the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead for his performance. Ahmed also won acclaim for his leading role in the HBO limited series, The Night Of (2017), starring opposite John Turturro.
Ritu Arya and Weruche Opia have joined Riz Ahmed’s upcoming Amazon Prime Video comedy series in recurring roles, Variety has learned exclusively. It was previously announced that Ahmed was ...
Oscar and Emmy winner Riz Ahmed is heading back to television, via a new half-hour comedy series at Amazon’s Prime Video. The untitled project will star Ahmed, who will also produce and write.
Riz Ahmed’s Amazon Prime Video comedy series has added three new series regulars, Variety has learned exclusively. Sheeba Chaddha, Aasiya Shah, and Sajid Hasan have all joined the untitled half ...
Yann Demange and Marc Jobst directed the second series. The first series won two British Academy Television Awards for Best Drama Serial and Best Writer, three Royal Television Society Awards and an International Emmy. The first season has been re-made into an HBO miniseries The Night Of, starring John Turturro and Riz Ahmed.
A Riz Ahmed documentary released earlier this year, may have shed light on the hidden history of British-Asian resistance to the violence of the 1970s and 1980s – Britain’s era of “P ...