---
name: "Riaad Moosa"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/riaad-moosa"
fi1m_id: "riaad-moosa"
imdb_id: "nm1596318"
tmdb_id: 996636
wikidata_id: "Q7322086"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "18 June 1977"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T22:33:32.814969+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."
---

# Riaad Moosa

## Identity

Riaad Moosa

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/riaad-moosa
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** riaad-moosa
- **IMDb ID:** nm1596318
- **TMDB ID:** 996636
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7322086
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riaad_Moosa, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7322086, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1596318/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/996636

Actor. Born 18 June 1977 in Cape Town, South Africa.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 18 June 1977, Cape Town, South Africa
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riaad_Moosa, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7322086, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1596318/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/996636

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom*](https://film.one/film/mandela-long-walk-to-freedom.md) (58)

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

## Biography

Riaad Moosa is a South African comedian, actor and qualified medical doctor. Born in Cape Town on 18 June 1977, he graduated from the University of Cape Town Medical School in 2001 after six years of training and worked as a doctor for three years.

He began performing stand-up comedy while at university, initially as a comedy magician, and has appeared in films and television. His acting credits include the lead role in the comedy *Material* (2012) and the part of Ahmed Kathrada in *Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom* (2013).

Moosa has received awards including the Comics Choice Award in 2011 and a SAFTA for best actor in a feature film for *Material*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom* (2013), Fi1m 58, as Ahmed Kathrada — [page](https://film.one/film/mandela-long-walk-to-freedom.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

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

- *New Material* (2021), as Cassim Kaif · Writer
- *Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom* (2013), as Ahmed Kathrada — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/mandela-long-walk-to-freedom.md)
- *Material* (2012), as Cassim Kaif · Writer
- *Outrageous* (2010), Actor

## Gallery

- ![Riaad Moosa](https://film.one/media/person/4164486/gallery-f2a25ac79494.jpg) Riaad Moosa — Mela on SABC, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Riaad_moosa_2020_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Riaad Moosa on the set of Material 2 in May 2020](https://film.one/media/person/4164486/gallery-821706791656.jpg) Riaad Moosa on the set of Material 2 in May 2020 — Mela on SABC, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Riaad_moosa_2020_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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