--- name: "Asim Chaudhry" canonical: "https://film.one/person/asim-chaudhry" roles: ["Actor"] born: "24 November 1986" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 77 average_as: "actor" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-09-17T19:59:46.427716+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." --- # Asim Chaudhry Actor. Born 24 November 1986 in Hounslow, Greater London, England, UK. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 24 November 1986, Hounslow, Greater London, England, UK - **Active:** 2014–present - **Also known as:** Chabuddy G - **BAFTA Television Awards:** 2 BAFTA nominations - **Average Fi1m score:** 77, as actor, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 84 (1), 2020s 74 (2) - **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Adventure 2, Comedy 2, Action 1, Fantasy 1, Science Fiction 1 - **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $2,293m across 2 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asim_Chaudhry, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q53567955, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5219130/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1502438 ## Streaming the US now - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*People Just Do Nothing*](https://film.one/tv/people-just-do-nothing.md) (84) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Asim Chaudhry > Asim Chaudhry made one character, Chabuddy G, and made him whole: a manager with no clients whose confidence is never touched by results. *People Just Do Nothing* leans on him hard, and the parts he has taken since have all been far smaller. Chabuddy G hands over a business card. There is always a card, always a venture printed on it that nobody in Brentford has asked for, and the smile that comes with it is the performance. Asim Chaudhry's manager in *People Just Do Nothing* can be turned down, ripped off and locked out in a single afternoon and describe it that evening as networking. Most comic actors let a flicker of panic show under the front. Chaudhry does not, ever, and the steadiness is what makes the man funny across five series and, given long enough, quietly sad. The series began as YouTube videos made by four men who met studying media at West Thames College: Chaudhry, Hugo Chegwin, Steve Stamp and Allan Mustafa. BBC Three commissioned it, the first four half-hour episodes went out in July 2014, and it ran to 2018, with a feature, *People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan*, following in 2021. The debt to *The Office* is plain in every episode and we have said so. It matters less than it should, because the people are not borrowed. Chaudhry has said the character is mostly drawn from his father, and from the Hounslow wheeler-dealers he grew up among, and it shows: Chabuddy is observed, not invented. We laughed hardest at him, and kept laughing after it stopped being comfortable, because Chaudhry never once asks us to like the man and never protects himself from the joke either. "My type of comedy is always self-deprecating, the joke's always on me," he has said, and it is true in a way that is rarer than it sounds; plenty of performers say it and then leave themselves a way out. He is also better in company than alone. The scene we remember best from the first series is not his: Stamp's Steves says something plain about his own life and the laugh dies. Chaudhry is one of the people who wrote that room, and the ensemble is where his writing shows. The reservation is small and it is about what came after. *Big in Japan* stays close to what the audience already loved rather than trying anything new with it, and since then Chaudhry has taken small parts in large films: Mohan Thakur in *Black Mirror: Bandersnatch* (2018), a co-worker in *Wonder Woman 1984* (2020), a warehouse employee in *Barbie* (2023), plus *Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3* and *The Electrical Life of Louis Wain*, and television in *Industry* and *The Sandman*. None of them has needed more than a few minutes of him. He also writes and directs shorts, which is the more promising line, since the one thing he made from scratch is the thing that lasted. Chabuddy G would have had the card printed already. ## Biography Asim Chaudhry is a British comedian, writer, director and actor. He is best known for co-creating and starring in the BBC mockumentary series *People Just Do Nothing* (2014–2018) as Chabuddy G, a hapless entrepreneur. Chaudhry was born on 24 November 1986 in Hounslow, Greater London. While studying media at college he met collaborators Hugo Chegwin, Steve Stamp and Allan Mustafa; together they developed the series from earlier YouTube webisodes about a fictional pirate radio station. For his performance as Chabuddy G he won a Royal Television Society Award for Best Comedy Performance in 2017 and received two BAFTA Television Award nominations. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, thetimes.com, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *Barbie* (2023), Fi1m 76, as Warehouse Employee — [page](https://film.one/film/barbie.md) - *Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3* (2023), Fi1m 71, as Teefs — [page](https://film.one/film/guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-3.md) - *People Just Do Nothing* (2014), Fi1m 84, as Chabuddy G — [page](https://film.one/tv/people-just-do-nothing.md) ## Complete filmography (51) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Vengeance: Murder on the Heath* (2026), series, as Sonny - *Dirty Business* (2026), series, as Mickey Lazarus - *Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die* (2026), as Scott - *Finding Father Christmas* (2025), as Fake Santa - *David* (2025), as King Achish (voice) - *Tinsel Town* (2025), as Danny - *Police* (2025), Acting - *Iain Stirling's Roast The Internet* (2025), series, Acting - *Death Valley* (2025), series, as Omar Sahni - *Comic Relief: Even More Funny for Money* (2025), as Chabuddy G - *The Actor* (2025), as Little Jack / Fred / Herbie / Dock Worker - *Picture This* (2025), as Sid - *The Painting & The Statue* (2025), as Tradesman 2/Servant 1/Well-dressed Man 2/Officer - *Person of Interest* (2024), as Shakil Khan - *The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland* (2024), as March Hare (voice) - *Stags* (2024), series, as Greg - *The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin* (2024), series, as Craig the Worlock, Craig the Warlock, Craig - *Listen Up!* (2023), as Onkel Ji - *Barbie* (2023), as Warehouse Employee — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/barbie.md) - *Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3* (2023), as Teefs — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-3.md) - *What's Love Got to Do with It?* (2023), as Mo the Matchmaker - *The Honeymoon* (2022), as Bav - *The Sandman* (2022), series, as Abel - *The Electrical Life of Louis Wain* (2021), as Herbert Railton - *The Cleaner* (2021), series, as Kai - *Late Night Mash* (2021), series, Acting - *People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan* (2021), as Chabuddy G, Additional Writing - *Rhod Gilbert's Growing Pains* (2021), series, as Guest - *Wonder Woman 1984* (2020), as Roger (Co-Worker) - *Industry* (2020), series, as Vinay Sarkar — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/industry.md) - *Mogul Mowgli* (2020), as Dr. Farihah Zaman - *The Big Night In* (2020), as Chabuddy G - *Hitmen* (2020), series, as Charles - *Love Pool* (2019), Pool Driver, Writer, Director - *Greed* (2019), as Frank the Lion Tamer - *Black Mirror: Bandersnatch* (2018), as Mohan Thakur - *Click & Collect* (2018), as Dev D'Cruz - *Happy New Year, Colin Burstead* (2018), as Sham - *Eaten by Lions* (2018), as Irfan - *High & Dry* (2018), series, as Arnab - *Chubby Funny* (2017), as Arash - *Donald Mohammed Trump* (2016), as Donald Mohammed Trump - *Peter & Wendy* (2015), as Mullins / Johnson - *Hoff the Record* (2015), series, Terry Patel, Writer - *Paddington* (2014), as Security Guard (uncredited) - *People Just Do Nothing* (2014), series, as Chabuddy G, Creator — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/people-just-do-nothing.md) - *W1A* (2014), series, as Security Guard 1 - *Inside No. 9* (2014), series, as Jai — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/inside-no-9.md) - *Cuckoo* (2012), series, as Waiter - *Black Mirror* (2011), series, as Mohan Thakur — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/black-mirror.md) - *Celebrity Mastermind* (2003), series, Acting ## Gallery - ![Actor Asim Chaudhry at the press conference for the film Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die at the 2026 Berlin International Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/290549/gallery-320e599a8b3e.jpg) Actor Asim Chaudhry at the press conference for the film Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die at the 2026 Berlin International Film Festival — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Asim_Chaudhry-4414.jpg/1280px-Asim_Chaudhry-4414.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Actor Asim Chaudhry at the press conference for the film Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die at the 2026 Berlin International Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/290549/gallery-ceb9abf80f8c.jpg) Actor Asim Chaudhry at the press conference for the film Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die at the 2026 Berlin International Film Festival — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Asim_Chaudhry-4414_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Asim_Chaudhry-4414_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Asim Chaudhry as Irfan in Eaten by Lions trailer (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/290549/gallery-12ad142b3bea.png) Asim Chaudhry as Irfan in Eaten by Lions trailer (2019) — EastWest Filmdistribution, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Asim_Chaudhry_in_Eaten_by_Lions_EastWest_Trailer.png/1280px-Asim_Chaudhry_in_Eaten_by_Lions_EastWest_Trailer.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Asim Chaudhry](https://film.one/media/person/290549/gallery-5105f990d988.png) Asim Chaudhry — EastWest Filmdistribution, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Asim_Chaudhry_in_Eaten_by_Lions_EastWest_Trailer_%28cropped%29.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Asim Chaudhry](https://film.one/media/person/290549/gallery-e5b43db26655.jpg) Asim Chaudhry — Image via TMDB - ![Director Gore Verbinski, cast members Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Zazie Beetz, Michael Peña and Asim Chaudhry, and producer Robert Kulzer at the press co (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/290549/gallery-84129f308cd6.jpg) Director Gore Verbinski, cast members Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Zazie Beetz, Michael Peña and Asim Chaudhry, and producer Robert Kulzer at the press co (2026) — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Good_Luck%2C_Have_Fun%2C_Don%27t_Die_at_the_2026_Berlin_International_Film_Festival-4442.jpg/1280px-Good_Luck%2C_Have_Fun%2C_Don%27t_Die_at_the_2026_Berlin_International_Film_Festival-4442.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### BAFTA Television Awards — 0 won, 2 nominated - 2018: British Academy Television Awards (nominated) - 2017: British Academy Television Awards (nominated) ### Other awards — 1 won - Royal Television Society Awards 2017: Royal Television Society Awards (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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