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Raza Jaffrey

ACTOR

1973 - Today

Raza Jaffrey

Raza Jaffrey is a British actor. He is known for his roles as Zafar Younis in the BBC One spy drama series Spooks (2004–2007) and Neal Hudson in the CBS medical drama Code Black (2015). He also had a recurring role as Aasar Khan in season 4 of the Showtime series Homeland (2014). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raza Jaffrey has received more than 2,841,924 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Raza Jaffrey is the 11,374th most popular actor (down from 9,889th in 2019), the 6,928th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 6,101st in 2019) and the 1,243rd most popular British Actor.

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  • 42.37

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  • 16

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  • 2.26

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  • 3.15

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Raza Jaffrey ranks 11,374 out of 13,578. Before him are Jaaved Jaaferi, Kimberly Wyatt, Jim Gaffigan,

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Raza Jaffrey Biography

Date of Birth:
May 28, 1975Birth Place:
Wallasey, Merseyside, England, UK

Biography

Born in Liverpool but raised in the London area, actor Raza Jaffrey was drawn toward the stage after graduating from Manchester University. After some work in the theater and guest spots on TV series such as "Picking up the Pieces" and "EastEnders," his first big role came in 2001, when he landed a co-starring spot in the musical "Mamma Mia!" on the London stage. Next Jaffrey won rave notices for his role in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Bombay Dreams," which he followed up with more TV work in "Murder Investigation Team" and "Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee," and a choice role in the feature thriller "Infinite Justice." In 2005, Jaffrey began portraying Zafar Younis on the popular BBC espionage drama "MI-5," where he got the chance to work alongside his former classmate Rupert Penry-Jones and met the woman he would marry, actress Miranda Raison. When the actor left the show in 2007, he garnered positive reviews for his performance in the crime drama "Eastern Promises" bef
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Raza Jaffrey

Date of birth

May 28, 1973 (age 51)

Place of birth

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Raza Jaffreyis an English actor and singer. On CBS's medical drama Code Black, he played Neal Hudson. He is well recognized for his role as Zafar Younis in BBC One's spy drama Spooks. In season 4 of the Showtime series Homeland, he played Pakistani Lieutenant Colonel Aasar Khan.

For Netflix, he is known for his role in the 2021 action thriller film, Sweet Girl, in which he plays, Vinod Shah.

Biography[]

Jaffrey was born in Liverpool, Merseyside, the son of an Agra-born Indian sea captain and a Liverpool-born English mother. He grew up in London and attended Dulwich College from 1986 to 1991.

At Manchester University, he studied English and drama, as well as performing at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. During his time at university, he performed in several plays at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, including Brian Friel's The London Vertigo, as well as Henry VIII and A Comedy of Errors at the Pendley Open Air Shakespeare Festival.

He worked with Royal Shakespeare Company

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