Akshay Kumar
Biography
Akshay Kumar is an English actor who trained at the Drama Centre London and started out in television, playing a Pakistani medical student in the fourth season of Homeland in 2014. He went on to appear in the crime drama Legends and the films Legacy and One Crazy Thing, and in 2017 took the role of barman Adil Joshi in the World War II drama The Halcyon, alongside smaller parts in The Indian Detective and Star Wars: The Last Jedi. He played an FBI agent in the crime thriller Inside Man: Most Wanted (2019), joined the CW science fiction series Pandora as the student Jett Annamali, and appeared in the miniseries Devs. He also acted on stage in the play Syndrome at the Tristan Bates Theatre, whose cast was nominated for a 2021 Offie, and he starred in the film Double Blind (2023).
Movie Career
- Films
- 4
- Career span
- 9 years2014 to 2023
Every film, newest first
- 2023Double BlindIMDb rating 5.6
- 2019Inside Man: Most WantedIMDb rating 5.6
- 2017UnlockedIMDb rating 6.3
- 2014Beyond the PaleIMDb rating 7.4
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Early training
Kumar was cast in Homeland while still a student at Drama Centre London, which caused him to pause his studies.
Early training
Kumar chose to pursue acting as a career after his first Shakespeare performance, which he gave at age 15, and he then became a member of the National Youth Theatre.
A change of course
Kumar contributed a 2021 piece to Backstage, in which he looked back on a two-year stretch of his career that also involved a day job.
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Worked with
Akshay Kumar made one film with each of them. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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All films by Michael Apted
M.J. BassettDirector, 1 film, 2019
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Ian Hunt-DuffyDirector, 1 film, 2023
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