Riz Ahmed Movies and Career Information

Rizwan Ahmed (born 1 December 1982), also known as Riz Ahmed or Riz MC, is an MC, musician and actor. He is noted for his lead performances in The Road to Guantanamo, Shifty and Four Lions. Ahmed attended Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood through a scholarship program. He graduated from Christ Church, Oxford with a degree in PPE and studied acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Ahmed's film career began in the Michael Winterbottom film The Road to Guantanamo in which he played the part of Shafiq Rasul, a member of the Tipton Three. Coincidentally, he and another actor involved in the film as well as two of the Tipton Three were detained at Luton Airport upon their return from the Berlin Film Festival where the film won a Silver Bear Award. Across his years as an actor he has also featured in various TV roles. He has played Sohail Waheed in the 2007 Channel 4 drama, Britz. 2008 saw him perform as both Riq in the five-part horror thriller for E4, Dead Set and Manesh Kunzru in ITV1's finance fraud drama Wired. In July 2009 in appeared in Freefall alongside Sarah Harding. Most notably, he featured in the title role of the 2009 independent film Shifty by Eran Creevy. Ahmed