2019 Toronto International Film Festival Vanity Fair Exclusive TIFF Portraits — September, 2019 RIZ AHMED

Riz Ahmed Acts His Way Out of Every Cultural Pigeonhole - New York Times (x)

#this is SUCH a gothic hero look#this is like#the gothic ingenue has just heard A Rumor about what’s up with him and she can’t believe he would be such a scoundrel#and then she meets his eye across the room and he is looking at her like this#sir this is untoward

These tags are a work of art (and also true)

@rob-anybody @turnabout

Riz Ahmed photographed by IKhan Photography (x)

I get randomly selected for secondary searches every time I fly to America. *audience members laugh*  I’m glad you find it funny. Thanks a lot. Cheers.

Who do you think the force is the strongest with?

#here have a gifset of riz being surprised his flirting got positive feedback  #and sparkling like a diamond

Riz Ahmed for Variety by Mark Williams & Sara Hirakawa.

EMMY® WINNER for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series Or Movie: Riz Ahmed in The Night Of

Riz Ahmed attends the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.

EMMY WINNER RIZ AHMED

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Riz Ahmed photographed by Lorenzo Agius for Telegraph Magazine UK, February 2010

Riz Ahmed photographed by Charlie Gray

I had a friend, the only black British girl that I knew in my year throughout the whole of Oxford. She just emailed me and said, ‘I saw you in a play recently and I hope you’re going to be pursuing acting as a career.’ Nobody else said that to me. And when you look at the screen, it’s like, ‘Dude, there’s nothing there for you.’ That’s a message you’re internalising every time you look at the TV screen, every time you open up a magazine. That you’re not reflected in this culture. That you don’t belong. I thought drama school was a stupid idea. But then I thought, ‘Screw it. Let me apply to just one.