Ayub Khan-Din

Ayub Khan-Din (born 1961 in Salford, Lancashire) is a British Pakistani actor and playwright. As an actor, Khan-Din participated in some 20 British films and TV series in the late 1980s and the 1990s. He made his film debut in My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), but is perhaps best known for the role of Sammy in Hanif Kureishi's Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987) and as one of the leading characters in the film Idiot from 1992. In the late 1990s, Kahn-Din began writing plays, the first was East is East (1997) for the Royal Court Theatre, was nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best New Comedy. The play draws very much from Kahn-Din's own childhood in Salford, where he grew up in a large family with a British Pakistani...