Abdul Salis

Abdul Salis is a British actor from London whose career has spanned television, film, stage and radio. On television he is known for playing the paramedic Curtis Cooper in the long-running medical drama Casualty, and he has also appeared in Doctor Who, Trevor's World of Sport, M.I. High, Father Brown and EastEnders. His film work includes Love Actually (2003), Sahara (2005) and Flyboys (2006), in which he played Eugene Skinner, a character inspired by the real aviation pioneer Eugene Jacques Bullard, and he starred as the chief mechanic Dodge Dowda in F1 The Movie (2025). On stage he performed in The Exonerated at London's Riverside Studios in 2006, played David Taylor in War Horse at the New London Theatre in 2010, and appeared in Barber Shop Chronicles at the National Theatre in 2018. He was also cast in The Wheel of Time and has worked in radio drama and video games.