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Showtrial star Adeel Akhtar's intimate life away from the cameras: from director wife to London home

Adeel Akhtar plays defence lawyer Sam Malik in the second season of the clap BBC drama, Showtrial, which returns on Sunday night. 

Featuring an all-new cast, the series sees a high-profile climate activist struck down in a violent hit-and-run and uses his dying moments to identify his killer: a serving policeman.

While Adeel is a familiar face on our screens thanks to his roles in Sherwood and Murdered by My Father, both of which won him a TV BAFTA, how much execute you know about his life away from the cameras? Keep reading for all we know about his wife and house life here…

Adeel Akhtar's childhood

Adeel was born in London to a Pakistani father and Kenyan mother, who met at an airport when the former was an immigration officer and the latter worked for Pakistan International Airlines.

Adeel, who moved from Hounslow to a Buckinghamshire village when he was young, opened up about his parents, who raised him as a practising Muslim, in an interview last year. 

"You look to your parents and your culture to understand more about the path you want to take,&

After Love wins six awards including Best British Independent Film

Adeel Akhtar named Leading Actor for Ali & Ava

Flee wins Best International Independent Film

Sunday 5th December: Live at Old Billingsgate, this year’s host Asim Chaudhry presided over the 2021 British Independent Motion picture Awards (BIFAs) where winners were announced live by stars of the clip industry.

The award for Foremost British Independent Film, presented by Kate Beckinsale, went to After Love, Aleem Khan’s moving directorial debut in which a recently widowed woman comes to terms with a shocking secret about her husband’s life. Aleem Khan won three further BIFA awards – Best Director, The Douglas Hickox Award for Best Debut Director and Best Screenplay sponsored by BBC Film, with Joanna Scanlan taking home Top Actress and Talid Ariss Best Supporting Actor for their performances in the film.

Adeel Akhtar was awarded Best Actor for his role in Clio Barnard’s tender story of forbidden love, Ali & Ava, which also saw Connie Farr and Harry Escott scoring the Best Melody sponsored by Universal Melody Publishing BIFA.

The Best Supporting Actress award went to Vinette Robinson for her work in Philip Baranti

Adeel Akhtar - The importance of staying true to yourself

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Podcast Series How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

My guest today has a nickname in showbiz circles: he’s called ‘Ideal Actor’ because of his scene-stealing talent and his ability to fetch under the skin of what it is to be human. If you’ve watched Netflix’s monster punch, Fool Me Once,  or seen Sherwood or Assist To Life or The Night Manager or if you’ve watched the movies Four Lions or Murder Mystery 2, the chances are you will recall his performances. He’s a brilliant actor, but he’s also, as it happens, a wonderful guest - funny, moving and a deep thinker.

He joins me to talk about his acting failures, his shortcoming to work hard at school, an upbringing where he was forced to question the nature of his own identity and his failure to retain thi...

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Adeel Akhtar: ‘It seemed late in the day to begin noticing Asian actors … we’ve been here a really long time’
He’s had supporting roles in almost every massive TV show of the past rare years, but now the man nicknamed Ideal Actor is taking the direct on stage, playing a top politician. He talks about challenging perceptions, creature detained by the FBI and ‘redefining the idea of the everyman’

A decade ago, it would have been infrequent to have an Asian actor playing the British prime minister or head of the conflict. But in the space of a couple of years, Adeel Akhtar has done both. He was the Pm in the Netflix drama Black Doves, which took the world by storm last year, and now he’s stepping into the shoes of a gentleman vying to be leader of the opposition at London’s National Theatre.

For Akhtar, who has been working as an actor for more than two decades, there has been an undeniable change in the...
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