Shazad Latif

Shazad Latif interests me for a specific reason: he keeps gravitating toward characters with hidden second selves. Whether playing Jekyll and Hyde in Penny Dreadful, the ambiguous Ash Tyler in Star Trek: Discovery, or now Captain Nemo in Nautilus, he is repeatedly trusted with men whose true face is uncertain. That is a particular gift; it lives in the eyes and the restraint, not the volume. Moving comfortably between spy drama, science fiction and the stage, the London-born actor has a range that should serve him well, and I suspect a genuinely lead-defining role is still ahead of him.

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Name (English)

Shazad Latif

Name (Japanese)

シャザド・ラティフ

Reading

しゃざど・らてぃふ

Born

July 8, 1988 (age 38)

Origin

London, United Kingdom

Occupation

actor / film actor / stage actor / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Dragon

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shazad%20Latif
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7491731

Tags

• actor
• film actor
• stage actor

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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