Riz Ahmed

Riz Ahmed is genuinely one of the most impressive multi-hyphenates working today, and I say that without any PR spin — the guy won an Emmy for The Night Of in 2017, then turned around and produced and starred in the short film The Long Goodbye, which took home the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short in 2022. That is a ridiculous range of wins across wildly different formats. Born in Wembley to Pakistani parents, he studied at Oxford and then took on roles that pushed against every stereotype Hollywood had waiting for him — Nightcrawler, Four Lions, Rogue One, Sound of Metal. Sound of Metal especially floored me; the commitment to learning ASL and drumming for that role was no gimmick. And all the while he has kept releasing music as Riz MC, using it as a vehicle for actual political commentary. Time called him one of the world's most influential people in 2017, and honestly, looking at the full picture, that tracks.

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Name (English)

Riz Ahmed

Name (Japanese)

リズ・アーメッド

Reading

りず・あーめっど

Born

December 1, 1982 (age 43)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Dog

Origin

Wembley, United Kingdom

Occupation

actor / rapper / film actor / singer / television actor

Awards & achievements

• 2017 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
• 2022 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film

• Official sitehttp://www.rizmc.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/rizwanahmed/
• Xhttps://x.com/rizmc
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riz%20Ahmed
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A1%E3%83%83%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1861917

Tags

• actor
• rapper
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.