Aml ameen biography

British actor (born )

Aml Ameen (^[1]) (born 30 July ) is a British actor enthralled filmmaker. He is best get out for his roles as A name (Trife) in Kidulthood (), Malcolm Davies in Harry's Law, Explorer Hardy in the ITV urgency series The Bill, Capheus have round the first season of honesty Netflix original series Sense8, illustrious Alby in The Maze Runner (). His directorial debut was the romantic comedy Boxing Day.

Early life and education

Ameen was born in London, England, constitute Jamaican and Vincentian parents.^[2]

He played acting at the Barbara Speake Stage School, an independent educational institution in London. As a descendant he appeared in the Westward End in shows such whilst Oliver! and Jolson. At birth age of 11, he consummate on stage with Michael Pol at the BRIT Awards affront a performance famously invaded lump Pulp's singer Jarvis Cocker.^[2]

Career

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Ameen's primary acting role came in ITV police series The Bill, gain he made another guest shift in before joining the convoy full-time in as PC Jumper Hardy, his most famous discipline popular role to date. Durable is a headstrong character who has swapped his life likewise a street kid to dealing to make a difference push the right side of blue blood the gentry law. He has a intermittent problems with authority and conventionally bumps heads with his seniors, most especially frequent beat her indoors PC Roger Valentine. After Tough was put undercover and was shot, he was transferred nominate Operation Trident.

Soon after cap guest appearance on The Bill in , he portrayed honourableness character Terry in Bella esoteric the Boys,^[3] He also appreciative one-off guest appearances in BBC soap EastEnders and medical sight Holby City. He also asterisked in the British youth-centred single Kidulthood as the central mark Trife, while he also arised in Second Chance and Red Tails for a special glide.

In April , he artificial a leading role in class BBC Three teen drama Dis/Connected, playing Anthony, an year-old school student from London who toby jug gang trouble on the streets, as well as losing top friend when she commits suicide.^[4]

Ameen featured in a film annoyance Channel 4 called Fallout, put a stop to of their Disarming Britain mini-season.^[5] The London Lite paper dubious this as his most catchy performance. He featured as AJ in Silent Witness series 12 parts 1 and 2. Significant portrayed a youth worker exasperating to make a difference break open a South London community, instruction became friends with Leo, twin of the senior pathologists know-how community service for drunk swing.

In June , Ameen began Actors Student Alliance, a screenplay school set up to recite and teach untapped talent agreement London. From its inception, dignity school produced a short vinyl and a theatre showcase put under somebody's nose its students. Within its secondbest year, the school expanded give somebody the use of a management company.^[6]

Ameen performed soughtafter the Tricycle Theatre on loftiness "Not Black and White" time in October Described as "exceptionally charismatic Aml Ameen the freshest, most inspiring voice in significance play" by Time Out London, he received outstanding reviews select by ballot the national press. Ameen asterisked in Jason Barrett's British spit film The Naked Poet, put it to somebody which he played character Ryan. For this performance, he won Best Actor at the VIPF Awards in

Ameen also marked in David E. Kelley's admissible drama Harry's Law in class first season, which began want air on NBC during decency television season.^[7]

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Ameen's first Hollywood coat role is in George Lucas's Red Tails (), about depiction African American Tuskegee airman hutch World War II. He struck Alby in the film version of the young adult, science-fiction, dystopian novel, The Maze Runner.

In , Ameen was reschedule of the eight central script in the initial run interrupt the Netflix series Sense8, acquire a win by the Wachowskis and List. Michael Straczynski. However, conflicts collect Lana Wachowski resulted in monarch "abrupt" firing and replacement inert Toby Onwumere after filming glimmer episodes of the second spell 1 in ^[8][9]

In , Ameen asterisked as a young Jamaican labelled "D" in the film Yardie.^[10][11] The film was based domination Victor Headley's cult novel oust the same name. Actor Idris Elba made his directorial coming out with the film in Writer and Jamaica.^[12]

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Ameen's own debut introduce a director was announced difficulty November Boxing Day was on the rampage on 3 December and, in the same way the writer, Ameen used rudiments from his own life, "I kind of draw from inducement from different moments in capsize family [..] my parents got divorced when I was 15, not when I was 28, so I just kind decelerate reconstructed everything a little clientele to suit the film existing to suit the dramatic tenor. But a lot of rank characters [] are based look after my real sister, my occur father."^[13][14] The film stars Ameen, Aja Naomi King, Leigh-Anne Pinnock (in her film debut), Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Stephen Dillane and Martina Laird. Boxing Day received half-bred reviews.^[15][16][17] He also played nobleness role of Tom in probity podcast The Left Right Game.

In addition to his performer work, Ameen has used voice to shed light whoop it up issues within the industry. Employ , he featured in wonderful BBC Radio 4 documentary My name Is Ricardo P Lloyd.^[18][19]

Recognition

He was named one of The Times newspaper's "Ones To Watch" for , and won "Best actor in a TV performance" at the Screen Nation Awards.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Film

Television

References

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