Zain Iqbal
Birthday: Born in 1998-05-28 in Cheadle, Greater Manchester
Deathday: Alive
Zain Iqbal (born 28 May 1998) is a British actor. He is known for his role as Ravi Singh in the BBC Three teen crime drama A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (2024), based on the novel of the same name. Iqbal grew up in Cheadle, Greater Manchester. He studied economics at university and trained in acting with the Royal Exchange Theatre's Youth Company. His younger brother is a model. Iqbal's father is a film buff and introduced him to Western films growing up. He cites Marlon Brando and Clint Eastwood as his biggest acting inspirations, and admired their performances from a young age in films like The Godfather and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. He particularly looked up to Dev Patel and Riz Ahmed to see how actors who look like him navigate and succeed in the film industry. He has also cited Jack O'Connell, Ben Mendelsohn, Barry Keoghan, Kristen Stewart, and Robert Pattinson as acting influences due to their "very unique, almost odd, approaches to the craft."
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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Character: Ravi Singh
Five years after the death of schoolgirl Andie Bell, Pippa Fitz-Amobi sets out to uncover what really happened to her. Sal Singh, Andie's boyfriend, admitted to the murder before taking his own life, but Pip doesn't believe he's responsible and teams up with Sal's brother Ravi to uncover the truth. If Sal Singh isn't a murderer and the real killer is still out there, how far will they go to keep Pip from finding out the truth?...
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All Crazy Random
Character: Boris
Danny Jones was a racing driver, the fastest of the Jones Boys. After taking the fall for a heist gone wrong we find him fresh out of prison.Danny returns home to find his father dead, his mother ill and his brother Séan missing. When he learns that Séan lost the family garage gambling and has landed himself in deep trouble with a local gangster over unpaid debts, Danny is thrust back into the world of British motor racing in a desperate attempt to clear the family name and win it all back. With...
A Message from the East
Character: Young Iqbal
The story of Muhammad Iqbal, a turn of the century poet/philosopher from South Asia. Through Iqbal's work we open a dialog between the East and West, refute the notion of a class of civilizations and discover our shared humanity....