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Adil Hussain

Adil Hussain

Actor · Born 1963-10-05 · Goalpara, Assam, India

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Biography

Adil Hussain (born October 5, 1963) is an Indian actor who has worked in Indian cinema, including art house cinema and mainstream Bollywood, as well as international cinema, in films such as The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Life of Pi (both 2012). He received National Film Awards (Special Jury) at the 2017 National Film Awards for Hotel Salvation and Maj Rati Keteki. He has starred in English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Norwegian and French films. As an actor, he first received acclaim in Othello: A Play in Black and White (1999), which was awarded the Edinburgh Fringe First, and later Goodbye Desdemona also directed by Roysten Abel. He remained the artistic director and Trainer of the Society for Artists and Performers in Hampi from 2004 to 2007, and a visiting faculty at Royal Conservatory of Performing Arts, The Hague. He is also a visiting faculty at his alma mater, the National School of Drama.

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Life of Pi (2012) — Santosh Patel
  2. Star Trek: Discovery (2017) — Aditya Sahil
  3. Calendar Girls (2003) — Jem's Friend 1
  4. English Vinglish (2012) — Satish Godbole
  5. The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013) — Mustafa Fazil
  6. What Will People Say (2017) — Mirza
  7. Kabir Singh (2019) — College Dean
  8. 2.0 (2018) — Home Minister
  9. Delhi Crime (2019) — Kumar Vijay
  10. Kaminey (2009) — Flight Purser
  11. Parched (2015) — Mystic Lover
  12. Good Newwz (2019) — Dr. Anand Joshi
  13. Lootera (2013) — K. N. Singh
  14. Crash Test Aglae (2017) — Shankar
  15. Ishqiya (2010) — Vidyadhar Verma
  16. Agent Vinod (2012) — Colonel
  17. Aiyaary (2018) — Retd. Colonel Mukesh Kapoor
  18. Commando 2 - The Black Money Trail (2017) — Vicky Chadda
  19. Force 2 (2016) — Brijesh Yadav
  20. Angry Indian Goddesses (2015) — Police Superintendent
  21. Bell Bottom (2021) — Santook
  22. Umrika (2015) — Agent de l’Immigration
  23. Mukti Bhawan (2016) — Rajiv
  24. Love Sonia (2018) — Shiva
  25. Tigers (2014) — Bilal
  26. Comedy Nights with Kapil (2013) — Self
  27. Sunrise (2014) — Joshi
  28. Unfreedom (2015) — Devraj Singh
  29. India Sweets and Spices (2021) — Ranjit Kapur
  30. Axone (2019) — Guest Appearance
  31. The Violin Player (2016) — The Stranger
  32. Ulajh (2024) — Dhanraj Bhatia
  33. Pareeksha (2020) — Buchchi Paswan
  34. Tooth Pari: When Love Bites (2023)
  35. The Xposé (2014) — Rajan
  36. Yatchan (2015) — Selvam/Vetri
  37. Main Aur Charles (2015) — Amod Kanth
  38. Chutney (2016) — Viriji
  39. Kothanodi: The River of Fables (2015) — Devinath
  40. Bombairiya (2019) — Pandya