Actor

Adil Hussain

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Acting credits

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Very extensive acting filmography.

TMDB popularity

2.5

Moderate attention

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Movies: 83Series: 8Crew credits: 1

TMDB ID: 227849

IMDb ID: nm1300009

Known for: Acting

Born: October 5, 1963

Age: 63

Place of birth: Goalpara, Assam, India

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2003 - 2026

Years active: 24

Average TMDB rating: 6.55

Wikidata: Q4682801

Also known as

阿迪爾・胡賽恩

Other jobs

Production Office Assistant (1)

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Biography

Adil Hussain (born October 5, 1963) is an Indian actor who has worked in Indian cinema, including art house cinema and mainstream Bollywood, as well as international cinema, in films such as The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Life of Pi (both 2012). He received National Film Awards (Special Jury) at the 2017 National Film Awards for Hotel Salvation and Maj Rati Keteki. He has starred in English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Norwegian and French films. As an actor, he first received acclaim in Othello: A Play in Black and White (1999), which was awarded the Edinburgh Fringe First, and later Goodbye Desdemona also directed by Roysten Abel. He remained the artistic director and Trainer of the Society for Artists and Performers in Hampi from 2004 to 2007, and a visiting faculty at Royal Conservatory of Performing Arts, The Hague. He is also a visiting faculty at his alma mater, the National School of Drama.