Riz Ahmed

Q: Has Riz Ahmed won any major awards?

Yes, Riz Ahmed won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series Actor for his role in 'The Night Of'. He has also received nominations for BAFTA and Golden Globe awards.

Q: What was Riz Ahmed's first film?

Riz Ahmed's first film was 'The Road to Guantanamo', released in 2006. This film helped launch his acting career and showcased his talent to a wider audience.

Q: What are some of Riz Ahmed's most successful films?

Some of Riz Ahmed's most successful films include 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story', 'Nightcrawler', and 'Venom'. These films have performed well at the box office and received critical acclaim.

Q: What is known about Riz Ahmed's personal life?

Riz Ahmed is known to keep his personal life private. He married Fatima Farheen Mirza in 2020, and they have one child together, whose name has not been publicly disclosed.

Q: What is Riz Ahmed's estimated net worth?

Riz Ahmed's estimated net worth is reported to be around $4 million. This figure reflects his successful career in acting and music.

Q: What are some milestones in Riz Ahmed's filmography?

Milestones in Riz Ahmed's filmography include his breakout role in 'Four Lions', his award-winning performance in 'The Night Of', and his lead role in 'Venom'. These projects significantly contributed to his recognition in Hollywood.

Q: Is Riz Ahmed involved in any charitable work?

Yes, Riz Ahmed is involved in various charitable initiatives, focusing on issues such as mental health awareness and supporting underrepresented communities in the arts.

Known for

Nightcrawler (2014)

IMDb 7.8 / 10

2014 / Crime, Drama / 117 min

When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become...

Venom (2018)

IMDb 6.6 / 10

2018 / Action, Adventure / 112 min

Investigative journalist Eddie Brock attempts a comeback following a scandal, but accidentally becomes the host of Venom, a violent, super powerful alien symbiote. Soon,...

Sound of Metal (2019)

IMDb 7.7 / 10

2019 / Drama, Music / 120 min

Metal drummer Ruben begins to lose his hearing. When a doctor tells him his condition will worsen, he thinks his career and life is...

Name

Riz Ahmed

Height

5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)

Born

1 December 1982, Wembley, London, England

Spouses

Fatima Farheen Mirza (2020–present)

Children

1 child, name not publicly known

Parents

Ahmed Ahmed, Nasreen Ahmed

Estimated Net Worth

$4 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	Movie Digger The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's savior before the...	Ganesh	Not rated
2026	TV Bait Shah Latif is a struggling actor on the cusp of landing the role of a lifetime, only to find himself...	Shah Latif	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2026	TV Saturday Night Live UK British incarnation of NBC's legendary late-night comedy showcase. Broadcast live each week, this UK version brings the high-wire, anything-can-happen energy...	Self - Host	TMDB 4.2 / 10
2026	TV Behind The Mic: The Making of The Harry Potter Full-Cast Audio Editions Go Behind the Mic with the cast and crew of the Harry Potter Full-Cast Audio Editions.	Himself	Not rated
2026	Movie Hamlet When Hamlet returns for his father’s funeral, he is stunned to discover his uncle Claudius is marrying his newly widowed...	Hamlet	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2026	Movie The Name of Action A look at why Hamlet, a play that’s over 400 years old, holds a mirror up to society today. Filmed...	Self	Not rated
2025	Movie Together for Palestine Broadcast of the "Together for Palestine" charity concert organized by Brian Eno along with several artists to raise funds and...	Self	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2025	Movie Relay A broker of lucrative payoffs between corrupt corporations and the individuals who threaten them breaks his own rules when a...	Ash	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2025	Movie The Phoenician Scheme Wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on...	Prince Farouk	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2023	Movie Fingernails Anna and Ryan have found true love together. It's been proven by a controversial test. There's just one problem: Anna...	Amir	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2023	Movie Dammi Returning to Paris, a man moves through memories of his past and surreal fragments of the present, searching for connection...	Mounir	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2023	Movie Nimona A knight framed for a tragic crime teams with a scrappy, shape-shifting teen to prove his innocence.	Ballister Boldheart (voice)	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2021	Movie Encounter A decorated Marine goes on a rescue mission to save his two young sons from an unhuman threat. As their...	Malik Khan	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2021	Movie The Long Goodbye A short about racism and Islamophobia in the UK.	Riz	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2021	Movie Lines Six poems written by six young prisoners animated to tell their stories, thoughts, fears and hopes.	Unknown character	TMDB 2.0 / 10
2020	Movie Sound of Metal Metal drummer Ruben begins to lose his hearing. When a doctor tells him his condition will worsen, he thinks his...	Ruben Stone	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2020	Movie Mogul Mowgli Zed, a young British rapper, is about to start his first world tour, when a crippling illness strikes him down,...	Zed	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2019	TV The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan is a British late-night talk show which was broadcast on Channel 4. The show...	Self	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2018	Movie Venom Investigative journalist Eddie Brock attempts a comeback following a scandal, but accidentally becomes the host of Venom, a violent, super...	Carlton Drake / Riot	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2018	Movie The Sisters Brothers Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to...	Hermann Kermit Warm	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2018	TV The Big Narstie Show Grime legend and social media sensation Big Narstie hosts an anarchic studio show along with his co-host, and the hottest...	Self	TMDB 4.3 / 10
2017	Movie The Stories: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' The Stories: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' is a 2017 documentary detailing the production of the...	Self	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2017	Movie Una When a young woman unexpectedly arrives at an older man's workplace, looking for answers, the secrets of the past threaten...	Scott	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2016	TV The OA Seven years after vanishing from her home, a young woman returns with mysterious new abilities and recruits five strangers for...	Elias Rahim	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2016	Movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new...	Bodhi Rook	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2016	Movie City of Tiny Lights In the teeming, multicultural metropolis of modern-day London, a seemingly straightforward missing-person case launches a down-at-heel private eye into a...	Tommy Akhtar	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2016	Movie Jason Bourne The most dangerous former operative of the CIA is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about his past.	Aaron Kalloor	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2016	TV The Night Of After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and...	Nasir 'Naz' Khan	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2015	TV The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Stephen Colbert brings his signature satire and comedy to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the #1 show in late...	Self - Guest	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2015	TV Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Some of this year's most talked about talent open up about the challenges and triumphs of creating critically acclaimed series...	Self	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2015	TV The Late Late Show with James Corden Once Craig Ferguson retires, James Corden will be taking over The Late Late Show. The show is a late night...	Self	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2014	TV Variety Studio: Actors on Actors PBS SoCal and Variety take you inside the biggest movies and TV shows of the past year through candid conversations...	Self	TMDB 4.2 / 10
2014	Movie Nightcrawler When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer...	Rick	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2014	TV The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon After Jay Leno's second retirement from the program, Jimmy Fallon stepped in as his permanent replacement. After 42 years in...	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2014	TV The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon After Jay Leno's second retirement from the program, Jimmy Fallon stepped in as his permanent replacement. After 42 years in...	Self	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2014	TV Off Camera with Sam Jones Photographer and director Sam Jones sits down with the myriad professionals of television and movies, and other celebrities (great skateboarders,...	Self	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2013	Movie Out of Darkness A unique story told by nine different actors which explores the haunting of a conscience by lost souls that won't...	Male	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2013	Movie Closed Circuit A high-profile terrorism case unexpectedly binds together two ex-lovers on the defense team - testing the limits of their loyalties...	Nazrul Sharma	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2013	Movie The Reluctant Fundamentalist In New York, a Pakistani native finds that his American Dream has collapsed in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist...	Changez	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2012	Movie Ill Manors Ensemble film revolving around characters living in Forest Gate, London. Over the course of a few days, six inter-linking stories...	Aaron	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2012	TV Girls The assorted humiliations, disasters and rare triumphs of four very different twenty-something girls: Hannah, an aspiring writer; Marnie, an art...	Paul-Louis	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2011	Movie Black Gold On the Arabian Peninsula in the 1930s, two warring leaders come face to face. The victorious Nesib, Emir of Hobeika,...	Ali	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2011	Movie Trishna When her father is killed in a road accident, Trishna's family expect her to provide for them. The rich son...	Jay	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2011	TV The Jonathan Ross Show The Jonathan Ross Show is a British chat show presented by Jonathan Ross. It was first broadcast on ITV on...	Self	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2010	Movie Four Lions Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the...	Omar	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2010	Movie Centurion Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with...	Tarak	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2009	TV 10 Minute Tales The biggest names in writing, acting and directing come together in a series of shorts on Sky1 HD this festive...	Joseph	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2009	Movie Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam Three years in the making, this feature documentary follows the progression of the Muslim Punk scene: from its imaginary inception...	Self	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2009	Movie Rage A schoolboy uses his cellphone camera to shoot intimate interviews with people working at a New York fashion house and...	Vijay	TMDB 3.5 / 10
2009	Movie Freefall FREEFALL is the first drama to tackle the extraordinary financial crisis Britons are living through. Helmed by multiple BAFTA-winning director...	Gary	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2008	TV Dead Set Zombies are rampaging throughout Britain. Blissfully unaware of gory events outside, the Big Brother housemates are in for the ultimate...	Riq Rahman	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2008	Movie Baghdad Express A young girl working in her father's Arabic restaurant is forced to decide which comes first - her dreams or...	Talal	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2008	Movie Shifty Shifty, a young crack cocaine dealer in London, sees his life quickly spiral out of control when his best friend...	Shifty	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2008	TV Wired Louise Evans is a single mother who works as a customer advisor for big bucks investors at a slick, pin-striped...	Manesh Kunzru	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2007	Movie Britz Sohail is an ambitious law undergraduate who signs up with MI5 and, eager to play a part in protecting British...	Sohail Wahid	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2007	TV Britz Two British-born Muslim siblings are drawn in radically different directions after 9/11.	Sohail	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2007	TV The Graham Norton Show Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The...	Self	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2006	TV The Path to 9/11 Beginning with the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and ending on the morning of 9/11, the draws on...	Yosri	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2006	TV The Play's the Thing	Unknown character	Not rated
2006	Movie Banglatown Banquet Middle-aged Muslim Bangladeshi women struggling for their freedom as they leave the familiarity of their Bangladeshi community and set out...	Razual	Not rated
2006	Movie The Road to Guantanamo Part drama, part documentary, The Road to Guantánamo focuses on the Tipton Three, a trio of British Muslims who were...	Shafiq	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2003	TV The Ellen DeGeneres Show The Ellen DeGeneres Show, often shortened to just Ellen, is an American television talk show hosted by comedian/actress Ellen DeGeneres.	Self - Musical Guest	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2003	TV Jimmy Kimmel Live! Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.	Self	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2003	TV Jimmy Kimmel Live! Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1996	TV The Daily Show The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.	Self	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1988	TV LIVE with Kelly and Mark A morning talk show with A-list celebrity guests, top-notch performances and one-of-a-kind segments that are unrivaled on daytime television, plus...	Self	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1953	TV The Oscars An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
TBA	Movie Violent Talent A man and his two oldest friends try to build a criminal empire in contemporary Chicago where he feels that...	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie The Big Fix A former Interpol cop in a bureaucratic role at FIFA uncovers an international match-fixing scandal and launches a high-stakes mission...	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie Exit West A young refugee couple from a war-torn country hears rumours that there are doors in the city they live that...	Saeed	Not rated
TBA	Movie Growth The founder of a Snapchat-like social media platform races to deal with the company's exponential growth and devastating leak of...	Unknown character	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2026	TV Bait Shah Latif is a struggling actor on the cusp of landing the role of a lifetime, only to find himself...	Creator Creator	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2026	TV Bait Shah Latif is a struggling actor on the cusp of landing the role of a lifetime, only to find himself...	Songs Sound	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2026	TV Bait Shah Latif is a struggling actor on the cusp of landing the role of a lifetime, only to find himself...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2026	TV Bait Shah Latif is a struggling actor on the cusp of landing the role of a lifetime, only to find himself...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2026	Movie Hamlet When Hamlet returns for his father’s funeral, he is stunned to discover his uncle Claudius is marrying his newly widowed...	Producer Production	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2024	TV Defiance: Fighting the Far Right In 1976, young Sikh Gurdip Singh Chaggar is murdered in west London. The National Front are rising. So young British...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2023	Movie Mustache It’s the late-90’s in Northern California and 13-year-old Pakistani-American Ilyas is facing a major crisis — his parents yanked him...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2022	Movie Joyland As a patriarchal family yearns for the birth of a son to continue their family line, their youngest son secretly...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2022	Movie You Resemble Me Two sisters are abruptly separated, the eldest, Hasna, struggles to find her identity and place in the world.	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2022	Movie Moshari The end of the world forces two sisters together, inside a mosquito net, just to live on—but first they must...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2021	Movie Flee Recounted mostly through animation to protect his identity, Amin looks back over his past as a child refugee from Afghanistan...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2021	Movie The Long Goodbye A short about racism and Islamophobia in the UK.	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2020	Movie Sound of Metal Metal drummer Ruben begins to lose his hearing. When a doctor tells him his condition will worsen, he thinks his...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2020	Movie Mogul Mowgli Zed, a young British rapper, is about to start his first world tour, when a crippling illness strikes him down,...	Story Writing	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2020	Movie Mogul Mowgli Zed, a young British rapper, is about to start his first world tour, when a crippling illness strikes him down,...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2020	Movie Mogul Mowgli Zed, a young British rapper, is about to start his first world tour, when a crippling illness strikes him down,...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2014	Movie Daytimer 1999, Naseem gives school and home the slip to attend his first daytime rave.	Writer Writing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2014	Movie Daytimer 1999, Naseem gives school and home the slip to attend his first daytime rave.	Director Directing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2008	Movie Baghdad Express A young girl working in her father's Arabic restaurant is forced to decide which comes first - her dreams or...	Songs Sound	TMDB 7.0 / 10
TBA	Movie Exit West A young refugee couple from a war-torn country hears rumours that there are doors in the city they live that...	Executive Producer Production	Not rated

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2026 / TMDB 5.7

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2026

Relay

2025 / TMDB 7.0

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2025 / TMDB 6.5

Fingernails

2023 / TMDB 6.0

Dammi

2023 / TMDB 6.0

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