---
name: "Asheq Akhtar"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/asheq-akhtar"
fi1m_id: "asheq-akhtar"
imdb_id: "nm4096064"
tmdb_id: 1182601
roles: ["Actor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-07T18:56:24.975612+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Asheq Akhtar

## Identity

Asheq Akhtar

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/asheq-akhtar
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** asheq-akhtar
- **IMDb ID:** nm4096064
- **TMDB ID:** 1182601
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4096064/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1182601

Actor. Born in Chittagong, Bangladesh.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Active:** 2017–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 70 (1), 2020s 73 (2)
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Comedy 3, Drama 3
- **Screen time:** 1 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4096064/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1182601

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Scrapper*](https://film.one/film/scrapper.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Asheq Akhtar is a British actor, director and musician. Born in Chittagong, Bangladesh, in 1975, he worked as a musician for many years before making his acting debut in the 2010 film *Self Made*.

He has appeared in television series including *Sherlock* (2010), *Black Mirror* (2011 and 2025), *His Dark Materials* (2019), *The Great* (2020), *Andor* (2022) and *Man Like Mobeen* (2017–2020), and in films such as *Blinded by the Light* (2019), *Dream Horse* (2021) and *Scrapper* (2023), in which he played Youseff. Akhtar has also directed several short films and releases music under the alias Suborno.

*Sources: imdb.com, metacritic.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Scrapper* (2023), Fi1m 72, as Youseff — [page](https://film.one/film/scrapper.md)
- *The Great* (2020), Fi1m 74, as Chef Louis — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-great.md)
- *Man Like Mobeen* (2017), Fi1m 70, as Brother Ahmed — [page](https://film.one/tv/man-like-mobeen.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Ladies First* (2026), as (Gavin) Victor's Secret Salesperson
- *The Buckingham Murders* (2024), as Shafiq
- *Sumotherhood* (2023), as Panji Patel
- *Scrapper* (2023), as Youseff — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/scrapper.md)
- *Warm* (2022), as Imran
- *Andor* (2022), series, as Fellow Prisoner — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/andor.md)
- *Murder in Provence* (2022), series, as Lionel Monetti
- *Dream Horse* (2021), as Peter
- *Jack and the Beanstalk: After Ever After* (2020), as Candlestick Maker
- *How to Build a Girl* (2020), as Mr. Sanghera
- *The Great* (2020), series, as Chef Louis — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-great.md)
- *His Dark Materials* (2019), series, as Jotham Santelia
- *Blinded by the Light* (2019), as Butcher
- *Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators* (2018), series, as Ajay Matharu
- *Man Like Mobeen* (2017), series, as Brother Ahmed — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/man-like-mobeen.md)
- *Benefits* (2017), as Adeel
- *Out of Darkness* (2013), Actor
- *Complicit* (2013), Actor
- *Black Mirror* (2011), series, as Otto — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/black-mirror.md)
- *Sherlock* (2010), series, as Saheed — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/sherlock.md)

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