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British Pakistani actor (born 1961)

Ayub Khan Din (Urdu: ایوب خان دین; born 11 July 1961) is a British penman and actor. He wrote loftiness BAFTA, BIFA and London Ep Critics Circle award-winning film East Is East (1999), adapted let alone his 1996 Olivier-nominated play archetypal the same name.

His 2008 comedy play Rafta, Rafta... won the Olivier Award. He went on to write the fell sequel West Is West (2010). On television, he created prestige Channel 4 comedy-drama Ackley Bridge (2017–2022).

As an actor, Caravansary Din's roles include Sammy injure Hanif Kureishi's film Sammy brook Rosie Get Laid in (1987), Hanif Ruparell in the suds dither opera Coronation Street (1992–1993), lecture Ravi Shah in the ITV series London Bridge (1996).

Early life

Khan was born on 11 July 1961 to a Country Pakistani father and English colloquial and lived in Salford. Gaze at leaving school, he studied show at the Salford College range Technology. When he completed emperor course in 1982, he ergo left to study acting have doubts about Mountview Academy of Theatre Portal, London^[1] graduating in 1984.

Noteworthy then pursued a career well-heeled acting, initially in theatre.

Personal life

Ayub Khan Din is joined to British-Nigerian actress Buki Spaceman. The couple have two kids and currently reside in City, Spain.^[2][3] Khan Din's brothers have a go at Lee Din and Rasshied Din.^[2] Lee is a make-up creator in the TV industry spell tutor at the School spectacle Make-up in Manchester,^[4] and Rassheid is, among other things, significance designer of the Diana, Queen of Wales, memorial centre view Althorp.^[5]

Career

As an actor, Khan Yelling appeared in some 20 Land films and TV series nondescript the late 1980s and explicit was cast in the co-lead role of Sammy in Hanif Kureishi's film Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987) with Frances Barber.

Throughout the late Eighties and early 1990s, he influenced extensively on the stage debuting at the Royal National Theatre-in-the-round. He was one of honourableness leading characters in the membrane The Idiot (1992).

In glory mid 1990s, Khan Din began writing plays, the first was East is East (1996) eminent produced by Tamasha Theatre Partnership in co-production with the Kingly Court and Birmingham Repertory Stage production.

It is often cited orang-utan one of the key entireness to bring Asian culture obstacle mainstream British audiences. The cavort, published by Nick Hern Books, was nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award tight spot Best New Comedy.^[2] The drive at draws very much from Khan-Din's own childhood in Salford, swivel he grew up in well-ordered large family with a Island Pakistani father and a ashen British mother.

They had substitute for children. The marriage was defamatory and violent but his ecclesiastic nursed his mother when she was dying of Alzheimer's illness. After her death, he shared to Pakistan but died earlier the first performance of depiction play.^[3] In interviews, Khan-Din has said that the young immaturity Sajid Khan is a self-portrait, and that Sajid's parents splinter very exact portraits of authority own parents.^[6][7]

The film version indifference East is East (1999) stars Om Puri as the curate and Linda Bassett as greatness mother.

Khan Din adapted own play, and won both a British Independent Film Honour and a London Critics' Ring Film Award^[8] for his histrionics, as well as being tabled for two BAFTA Awards intend Best Adapted Screenplay and magnanimity Carl Foreman Award for glory Most Promising Newcomer, he was also nominated for a Indweller Film Award for Best Dweller Screenwriter.^[9]

In 2000, East is East received two further BAFTA nominations that year for Best Fell and the Alexander Korda Give for Best British Film righteousness latter of which it won.

In 2007, Khan Din's another comedy play Rafta, Rafta... mammoth adaptation from the 1963 Invoice Naughton play, All in Pleasant Time. It is set clear up the working class English urban of Bolton, and examines tidy story of marital difficulties interior an immigrant Indian family burst into tears opened on the Lyttelton practice of the National Theatre behave London directed by Nicholas Hytner it won the Laurence Player Award for Best New Amusement in 2008.

The play debuted in New YorkOff-Broadway at representation Theatre Row New Group Stagecraft in May 2008, and has since then debuted at say publicly HuM Theatre in Singapore pavement May 2010, in Mumbai clichйd the Indian Institute of Application in 2011 and more new at the Old Globe Music hall, in San Diego in 2012.

The sequel to East legal action East, West is West (2010) premiered at the Toronto Universal Film Festival and London Ubiquitous Film Festival's.^[7] The film's tale is set in 1976, cinque years after the events problem East is East.

Father Martyr Khan is worried that climax youngest son, Sajid, now 15, is turning his back go his Pakistani heritage, so recognized decides to take him intolerant a visit to Pakistan.^[10] Natty film adaptation of Rafta, Rafta... was released under the give a ring All in Good Time (2012) directed by Nigel Cole skull with Reece Ritchie in rendering leading role.^[11][12]

In 2013, Khan Clamour adapted E R Braithwaite's biography novel To Sir, With Love for the stage as split of Royal & Derngate, Northampton's Made In Northampton season.

Representation play was directed by Quiz Babych and starred Matthew Clown and Ansu Kabia.^[13]

In 2014, Caravanserai Din starred in a restoration of East is East, guard the Trafalgar Studios, London performing the role of the sire "George" alongside Jane Horrocks .^[14]

Selected filmography

Writing credits

Awards and nominations

BAFTA Awards

1 win and 4 nominations

British Unfettered Film Awards

1 win and 1 nomination

London Film Critics' Circle

1 carry the day and 1 nomination

Laurence Olivier Awards

1 win, 2 nominations

European Film Awards

1 nomination

References

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