Shazad Latif

Shazad Latif Biography

Shazad Latif (born July 1988) is a British actor, who starred in the BBC TV series Spooks as the highly skilled technician and data analyst Tariq Masood in series 8-10.

Early life

Born in London of mixed Pakistani, English and Scottish descent, Latif grew up in Tufnell Park, North London. He studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and performed in many stage productions including King Lear, playing Cornwall, and Richard Sheridan's comedy School for Scandal, as Joseph Surface. He left the school a year early to take up his role in Spooks.

Career

Latif's professional theatre credits include playing Ricky Roma in Glengarry Glen Ross at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Mumbai Tales at the Blue Elephant Theatre in London.

Spooks was his first major role on TV. He starred in all three series of Toast of London as Clem Fandango, one of the characters recording Steven Toast (Matt Berry) doing often-ridiculous voiceovers.

In 2016 he joined the cast of Penny Dreadful as the literary character Dr. Jekyll.

On December 12, 2016 StarTrek.com states that Latif will play a Klingon leader Kol in the upcoming Star Trek: Discovery TV series set to air its pilot episode May 2017, and season one is to air on CBS streaming service in America and Netflix abroad.

Personal life

While his character on the show Spooks is a technological expert, in real life Latif is a self-proclaimed technophobe. In 2012 he lived in Camden, London.

Filmography

Film and television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2009-11	Spooks	Tariq Masood	Series 8-10 (Main role; 17 episodes)
2010	The Silence	Yousef	3 episodes
2011	Fresh Meat	Riz	1 episode
	Comedy Lab	Bobby	1 episode
	Black Mirror	Mehdi Raboud	Episode: "The National Anthem"
2012	Silk	Ibrahim Ali	1 episode
2013	My Mad Fat Diary	Dr. Nick Kassar	5 episodes
	Jo	Nasser	1 episode
	Love Matters	Satpal	1 episode
2013-present	Toast of London	Clem Fandango	TV series
2014	Salting the Battlefield	Jez Nichols	TV film
2015	Ordinary Lies	Rick O'Connor	4 episodes
2015	The Man Who Knew Infinity	Chandra Mahalanobis	Film
2015	The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel	Kushal	Film
2016	Penny Dreadful	Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr Hyde	TV series
2017	The Commuter		Filming
2017	Star Trek Discovery	Kol	TV Series

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