Antonio Aakeel

ACTOR, DIRECTOR, WRITER

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29th May 2022 | FlixCatalog Staff

British actor Antonio Aakeel is best known for his leading film role in the award winning Eaten by Lions (2018). He was named a Screen International 'Star of Tomorrow' by global film publication Screen Daily: an international conglomerate of film journalists known for distinguishing rising talent. Previous recipients of the award have included Eddie Redmayne, John Boyega and Dev Patel.Aakeel was born in Wolverhampton, England, to British-Indian parents and moved around the West Midlands as a child. He began acting in local theatre and school productions, before being cast in his first professional stage role as Khalid, in a national theatre tour of Anna Perera's award-winning novel, Guantanamo Boy.In 2019, Aakeel won the EE Eastern Eye ACTA Award for 'Best Emerging Artist' supported by Arts Council England at its annual London ceremony.He was cast in his first leading feature film role as Omar in Eaten by Lions (2018), playing a young man in search of his estranged father alongside comedians Johnny Vegas and Asim Chaudhry. The film premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and won the audience award for 'Best Film' at the London Indian Film Festival ahead of its wide cinematic release in 2019.Antonio won his small screen debut in the BAFTA award-winning drama series Skins (2007) after applying to a nationwide campaign seeking new acting talent. This was closely followed by roles in Independent features and Television, including a leading role in the critically acclaimed BBC One drama Moving On: Eighteen (2016), which won 'Best Daytime Programme' at the Royal Television Society Awards in 2018.He was next cast as Nitin, alongside Oscar winner Alicia Vikander in Warner Bros' Tomb Raider (2018) reboot, establishing himself as one of Britain's fast emerging talents.He appeared opposite Riz Ahmed and Billie Piper in the noir inspired thriller City of Tiny Lights (2016) directed by BAFTA-winner Pete Travis. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2016.In 2017, Aakeel played troubled brother to Life of Pi's Suraj Sharma in Film London's Shakespearean feature adaptation The Hungry (2017); a dark retelling of Titus Andronicus for Amazon, directed by Bornila Chatterjee. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival 2017.It was announced by the BBC he was cast as the flamboyant and reckless Rafe Lahiri, a series regular in STARZ and BBC One's drama series Dublin Murders (2019) directed by Saul Dibb.Aakeel will next lead the upcoming feature Granada Nights as Ben, an uncultured British-tourist struggling with heartbreak and hedonism in the Spanish province, set for release in 2020. - IMDb Mini Biography By: S.J

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Antonio Aakeel’s flixes, followed by Apple iTunes compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Antonio Aakeel on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 2016 to 2021. See the full graphs of the number of Antonio Aakeel movies released per year from 2016 till 2021.

Top Genres

Antonio Aakeel works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Crime Genre flixes. 42% of Antonio Aakeel movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Antonio Aakeel worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Antonio Aakeel has worked on is 7.7.

7.7 / 10

Antonio Aakeel's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Biography,Crime,Drama
Three Girls (2017)

Based on three young girls who were groomed, sexually abused and trafficked by a group of men in Rochdale and of the failure of the authorities to do anything about it.

8.1/10180 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

Mobeen is a 28 year old Brummie Muslim single handedly raising his 15 year old sister. This show documents the struggles of his criminal past, the friendships he has and the controversies he faces as a Pakistani Muslim.

8/1021 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Crime,Drama,Mystery
Badla (2019)

A dynamic young entrepreneur finds herself locked in a hotel room with the corpse of her dead lover. She hires a prestigious lawyer to defend her and they work together to figure out what actually happened.

7.8/10118 min

Available in 4 platform(s).

An adaptation of William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus set in contemporary New Delhi. The Hungry is a contemporary retelling of Shakespearian tragedy Titus Andronicus, set in the ...

7.1/10100 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

6.4/1085 min

Available in 4 platform(s).

When Pete and Omar lose their beloved Gran they go in search of Omar's estranged father, confronting him on the day of his daughters engagement party.

6.1/1095 min

Available in 15 platform(s).

/10\N min

Available in 1 platform(s).