Asheq Akhtar

Asheq spent many years as a musician before making his acting debut in Turner Prize winner Gillian Wearing’s critically acclaimed film Self Made in 2010.

Television and Film work includes:- Black Mirror S7, Star Wars: Andor S1 (Lucasfilm), Sumotherhood (Feature), The Buckingham Murders (Netflix), Murder in Provence (ITV), Screw (STV Studios), The Great (Hulu), Man Like Mobeen (Tiger Aspect), Devils (Lux Vide), His Dark Materials (BBC/HBO), Scrapper (BBC Film), Shakespeare and Hathaway (BBC), Sherlock (BBC). 

Romeo & Juliet marks Asheq’s professional stage debut.