Biography
Elham Ehsas is an actor, writer and director. He made his screen debut as Young Assef in the film The Kite Runner (2007).
His subsequent film roles include Translator Kenny in War Machine (2017), Shoaib in The Kill Team (2019), Hamid Gul in Attack (2022) and Rahim in Fuze (2025). On television he has appeared as Jalal Haqqani in Homeland (2020), Sebastian Modena in Shantaram (2022), Asif Syed in Unforgotten (2025) and Edward in The Agency (2024). He has also performed on stage in productions of The Jungle at the Young Vic, in the West End and in New York.
Ehsas wrote and directed the short film Yellow (2023), which received a BAFTA nomination for Best British Short Film.
