Antonio Aakeel

Antonio Aakeel is an English actor from Wolverhampton who got into performing through local theater after a small speaking role in a school nativity production. He made his first leading feature appearance as Omar in Eaten by Lions (2018), playing a young man searching for his absent father; Screen Daily later named him a Screen International Star of Tomorrow. On the big screen he also acted opposite Alicia Vikander in the 2018 Tomb Raider reboot and shared scenes with Riz Ahmed and Billie Piper in City of Tiny Lights (2016), which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. His television work has included Skins, the Royal Television Society-winning BBC One drama Moving On, the BAFTA-winning Three Girls, Ackley Bridge, Dublin Murders, and the Apple TV series Slow Horses. He also took the title role in a stage version of Guantanamo Boy and voiced Devyn in the video game Immortals of Aveum.