Riz Ahmed

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Rizwan Ahmed, also known as Riz Ahmed or Riz MC, is an MC and actor, born in 1984.

1 Education
2 Music
3 Acting career
4 External links

[edit] Education

Riz was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, a boys' independent school in Northwood, Middlesex. He graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, and trained as an actor at Central School of Speech and Drama. He is of Indian descent, his grandparents coming from India to Britain in the 20th century.

[edit] Music

He released his first hip-hop single in 2006, Post 9/11 Blues: a controversial satire that was temporarily banned from British airplay due to the politically sensitive lyrics.

[edit] Acting career

Ahmed played Sohail Waheed in the 2007 Channel 4 drama, Britz.
He was a member of the Confidential Collective, but he received a scholarship for drama school and left in May 2005.
He played the part of Shafiq Rasul, a member of the Tipton Three, in Michael Winterbottom's The Road to Guantanamo, and was detained by British intelligence while returning from its Berlin film premiere.
A starring role in Shan Khan's "Prayer Room."
A role in the Asian Dub Foundation opera "Gadaffi."
A starring role as psychotic serial-killer-turned-born-again-Christian Lucius in Lighthouse Theater's acclaimed production of Stephen Adly Guirgis's "Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train" (dir: Jack William Clift & Thomas Sweatman)