Professional overview
Naveed Khan is a stage and screen actor who trained on the Oxford School of Drama’s One Year Course. The school records his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Tartuffe, Tamburlaine and The Buddha of Suburbia, where he played Anwar. Its alumni record also lists A Thousand Splendid Suns on tour and Around the World in 80 Days at Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds.
His screen work spans film and television. The drama school lists Captain Mahmoud in Death on the Nile, an imam in What’s Love Got to Do With It? and an appearance in Humans. His agency lists more recent credits including the BBC comedy Black Ops and Quarter Life.
In a first-person interview with Folkelife, Khan described turning to actor training after studying architecture and taking part in a play at the Edinburgh Festival. He said theatre remains his first love, while television is also an important part of his work. He also described his ceramics practice and participation in The Great Pottery Throw Down. These are his own recollections, not an independently reconstructed life chronology.