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Riz Ahmed

Riz Ahmed
  • First Movie - Banglatown Banquet 2006
  • Last Movie - Digger 2026
  • Total Movies - 31
  • Future Movies -
    • Digger (2nd October 2026)
  • Highest Grossing Movies
    • UK: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) - £66,112,139
    • US: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) - $533,539,991
    • World: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) - $1,057,118,179
  • Combined grosses
    • UK - £121.1 Million
    • US - $984.4 Million
    • Global - $2.6 Billion
  • Highest Rated Movie - Weathering With You (2019) - 100%
  • Lowest rated movie - Venom (2018) - 63%

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Year

Digger

Director(s):
Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Starring:
Tom Cruise • Sandra Hüller • John Goodman • Jesse Plemons • Sophie Wilde

2026

The Phoenician Scheme

(Riz Ahmed plays Prince Farouk)

Director(s):
Wes Anderson

Starring:
Benicio Del Toro • Mia Threapleton • Riz Ahmed • Tom Hanks • Bryan Cranston

2025

Hamlet

(Riz Ahmed plays Hamlet)

Director(s):
Aneil Karia

Starring:
Riz Ahmed • Art Malik • Joe Alwyn • Timothy Spall • Morfydd Clark

2025

Relay

(Riz Ahmed plays Ash)

Director(s):
David Mackenzie

Starring:
Riz Ahmed • Lily James • Sam Worthington • Willa Fitzgerald • Jared Abrahamson

2025

Nimona

(Riz Ahmed plays Ballister Boldheart)

Director(s):
Nick Bruno • Troy Quane

Starring:
Chloë Grace Moretz • Riz Ahmed • Eugene Lee Yang • Frances Conroy • Lorraine Toussaint

2023

Fingernails

(Riz Ahmed plays Amir)

Director(s):
Christos Nikou

Starring:
Jessie Buckley • Riz Ahmed • Jeremy Allen White • Luke Wilson • Christian Meer

2023

2022 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Live Action

(Riz Ahmed plays Riz)

Director(s):

Starring:
Taalaykan Abazova • Kanat Abdahmanov • Riz Ahmed • John Alton • Camilla Bendix

2022

Sound of Metal

(Riz Ahmed plays Ruben)

Director(s):
Darius Marder

Starring:
Riz Ahmed • Olivia Cooke • Paul Raci • Lauren Ridloff • Mathieu Amalric

2021

Mogul Mowgli

(Riz Ahmed plays Zed)

Director(s):
Bassam Tariq

Starring:
Riz Ahmed • Anjana Vasan • Aiysha Hart • Nabhaan Rizwan • Alyy Khan

2020

Weathering With You

(Riz Ahmed plays Takai)

Director(s):
Makoto Shinkai

Starring:
Kotaro Daigo • Nana Mori • Shun Oguri • Sei Hiraizumi • Yuki Kaji
2019

The Sisters Brother's

(Riz Ahmed plays Hermann Kermit Warm)

Director(s):
Jacques Audiard

Starring:
John C. Reilly • Joaquin Phoenix • Jake Gyllenhaal • Riz Ahmed • Rebecca Root

2018

Venom

(Riz Ahmed plays Carlton Drake / Riot)

Director(s):
Ruben Fleischer

Starring:
Tom Hardy • Michelle Williams • Riz Ahmed • Scott Haze • Reid Scott
2018

City of Tiny Lights

Director(s):
Pete Travis

Starring:
Riz Ahmed • Billie Piper • James Floyd • Cush Jumbo • Roshan Seth

2017

Una

Director(s):
Benedict Andrews

Starring:
Ruby Stokes • Rooney Mara • David Shields • Ben Mendelsohn • Tara Fitzgerald

2017

Jason Bourne

(Riz Ahmed plays Aaron Kalloor)

Director(s):
Paul Greengrass

Starring:
Matt Damon • Tommy Lee Jones • Alicia Vikander • Vincent Cassel • Julia Stiles
2016

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

(Riz Ahmed plays Bodhi Rook)

Director(s):
Gareth Edwards

Starring:
Felicity Jones • Diego Luna • Alan Tudyk • Donnie Yen • Wen Jiang
2016

Nightcrawler

Director(s):
Dan Gilroy

Starring:
Jake Gyllenhaal • Michael Papajohn • Marco Rodriguez • Bill Paxton • James Huang

2014

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Director(s):
Mira Nair

Starring:
Riz Ahmed • Kate Hudson • Liev Schreiber • Kiefer Sutherland • Om Puri

2013

Closed Circuit

(Riz Ahmed plays Nazrul Sharma)

Director(s):
John Crowley

Starring:
Eric Bana • Rebecca Hall • Ciarán Hinds • Jim Broadbent • Riz Ahmed

2013

Trishna

Director(s):
Michael Winterbottom

Starring:
Freida Pinto • Riz Ahmed • Anurag Kashyap • Roshan Seth • Kalki Koechlin

2012

Black Gold

Director(s):
Jean-Jacques Annaud

Starring:
Tahar Rahim • Mark Strong • Antonio Banderas • Freida Pinto • Riz Ahmed

2012

Ill Manors

(Riz Ahmed plays Aaron)

Director(s):
Plan B

Starring:
Riz Ahmed • Sliem Ben-Salah • Ed Skrein • Lee Allen • Dan Lloyd Jones

2012

Centurion

(Riz Ahmed plays Tarak)

Director(s):
Neil Marshall

Starring:
Michael Fassbender • Andreas Wisniewski • Dave Legeno • Axelle Carolyn • Dominic West

2010

Four Lions

(Riz Ahmed plays Omar)

Director(s):
Christopher Morris

Starring:
Kayvan Novak • Nigel Lindsay • Riz Ahmed • Adeel Akhtar • Preeya Kalidas

2010

Freefall

Director(s):
Dominic Savage

Starring:
Dominic Cooper • Laura Ainsworth • Aidan Gillen • Joseph Mawle • Olivia Chamberlain

2009

Rage

(Riz Ahmed plays Vijay)

Director(s):
Sally Potter

Starring:
Simon Abkarian • Patrick J. Adams • Riz Ahmed • Bob Balaban • Adriana Barraza

2009

Shifty

Director(s):
Eran Creevy

Starring:
Riz Ahmed • Daniel Mays • Jason Flemyng • Nitin Ganatra • Jay Simpson

2009

Banglatown Banquet

Director(s):
Hettie Macdonald

Starring:
Shabana Azmi • Riz Ahmed • Sam Dastor • Gerard Horan • Ronny Jhutti

2006

Berrys Way

Director(s):
Metin Hüseyin

Starring:
Lenny Henry • Riz Ahmed • David Bark-Jones • Alice Birch • Hayley Bishop

2006

The Road to Guantanamo

(Riz Ahmed plays Shafiq)

Director(s):
Mat Whitecross • Michael Winterbottom

Starring:
Riz Ahmed • Farhad Harun • Waqar Siddiqui • Arfan Usman • Shahid Iqbal

2006
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