Biography
Who is Ali Fazal?
Early life
Ali Fazal was born in Mumbai, India, and grew up in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. For a brief period, he attended the International Indian School in Dammam. He also went to La Martiniere College in Lucknow and later moved to The Doon School, an all-boys boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand. At Doon, he participated in many theatre productions and found his calling while playing the role of Trinculo in William Shakespeare's The Tempest.
After finishing his schooling at Doon, Ali moved to Mumbai and graduated in economics from St. Xavier's College. During his second year of college, he was seen in a play and picked for a lead role in the film Ek Tho Chance. He was also performing in a play at Prithvi Theatre in Juhu when a member of a film production unit noticed him and referred him to a major Bollywood project.
Career highlights
Ali made his screen debut with a small role in the 2008 romantic comedy film The Other End of the Line. The following year, he appeared in the television miniseries Bollywood Hero and made his Bollywood film debut with a supporting role in the widely successful 3 Idiots. He played an engineering student named Joy Lobo in the film, which emerged as a big box-office success.
Over the next few years, Ali starred in several films including Always Kabhi Kabhi, Fukrey, and Bobby Jasoos. He expanded his career to international cinema with a small role in the action film Furious 7 and a starring role as Abdul Karim in the British-American biographical drama Victoria & Abdul alongside Judi Dench. He also took on the lead role of Guddu Pandit in the Amazon Prime Video crime thriller series Mirzapur.
Recent work and production
In 2021, Ali expanded his career into film production by launching his own company named Pushing Buttons Studios alongside Richa Chadha. He continued to appear in major projects, including the Hollywood films Death on the Nile and Kandahar. He also reprised his role as Guddu Pandit in the second season of the crime series Mirzapur.
Ali later expanded into Tamil cinema with a role in Mani Ratnam's Thug Life and starred in the investigative crime thriller web series Raakh, which premiered on Amazon Prime Video. Throughout his career, he has worked across multiple languages and formats, taking on both supporting and leading roles in films and television.
Birthday and age
Ali Fazal was born on January 2, 1987, which makes Ali 39 years old today. That birthday falls under the Capricorn sign. Ali shares the date with 30 other famous people.
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