Nabil Elouahabi

Nabil Elouahabi is a British-Moroccan actor whose first screen work came in a 1998 episode of the BBC medical drama Casualty. Television roles followed, among them Attachments and the Christmas special of Only Fools and Horses, in which he played Rashid Mahmoon in 2002. He also appeared in In This World (2003) and in two films released in 2002, Ali G Indahouse and The Sum of All Fears. His best known part came when he joined EastEnders as Tariq Larousi, a role he held from 2003 to 2005 and lost when the character and the Ferreira family were dropped after audiences turned against them. He went on to play the real terrorist Ramzi Yousef in The Path to 9/11, portrayed a Kuwaiti translator for HBO in Generation Kill, and took the role of Mr. Mustapha in the Netflix series Top Boy. Later British television work included Holby City and the drama Blue Lights, where he played Joseph in 2023.