British-Pakistani actor, Riz Ahmed, was born in Wembley, United Kingdom.
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Riz is covered in tattoos and noticeably more muscular.
Riz won an Academy Award, Primetime Emmy Award, National Board of Review Award, Independent Spirit Award, London Film Critics’ Circle Award, and two British Independent Film Awards.

He has also received nominations for two Golden Globe Awards, two Emmy Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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He was initially known for his work in independent films such as The Road to Guantánamo (2006), Shifty (2008), Four Lions (2010), Trishna (2011), Ill Manors (2012), and The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013), as well as television series such as Britz (2007) and Dead Set (2008), before his breakout role in the film Nightcrawler (2014).
In 2016, Riz appeared in the action film Jason Bourne, and played Bodhi Rook in the Star Wars Anthology film Rogue One.
He also starred as a young man accused of murder in the HBO miniseries The Night Of, earning critical acclaim.
At the 2017 Emmy Awards, he received two nominations, for his performance in The Night Of and his guest role in Girls; he won the award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for the former, becoming the first Asian male to win an acting Emmy, and the first Muslim and first Asian to win a lead acting Emmy.


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