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Ayad Akhtar
Actor, WriterBorn October 28, 1970 (54 years)
Ayad Akhtar is an American-born playwright, novelist, and screenwriter of Pakistani heritage who received the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His work has received two Tony Award nominations for Best Play and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Akhtar's writing covers various themes including the American-Muslim experience, religion and economics, immigration, and identity. In 2015, The Economist wrote that Akhtar's tales of assimilation "are as essential today as the work of Saul Bellow, James Farrell, and Vladimir Nabokov were in the 20th century in capturing the drama of the immigrant experience."
Filmography
| 2011 | Too Big to Fail · as Neel Kashkari |
| 2005 | The War Within · as Hassan |
| 1994 | Vanya on 42nd Street · as Audience Member |