Arsher Ali

Ali is of Pakistani descent.^[3] He is a graduate of East 15 Acting School.^[4] He married British-Iranian actress Roxy Shahidi in 2010.^[5] The couple had their first child, a daughter, in January 2018.^[6][7] Ali has been vocal throughout his career about the challenges faced by British Asian actors in the film industry and his continual fight against racial typecasting.^[8][9]

Ali is a keen Nottingham Forest fan.

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Film

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Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2007	Maxwell	Franklin	Television film	[10]
2010	Four Lions	Hassan Malik		[9]
	Pulse	Adam Hussein	Television film	[11]
2012	All in Good Time	Etash Tailor		[12]
2013	Complicit	Waleed Ahmed	Television film	[13]
2014	ALT	Callum	Television film	[14]
2015	A Patch of Fog	Troy Griffin		[15]
	Remainder	Naz Vyus		[16]
2016	The Darkest Universe	Dr Max Robson		[17]
2017	The Ritual	Phil		[18]
2018	To Provide All People	Junior Doctor	Television film	[19]
	Been So Long	Jake		[20]
2019	The Flood	Nasrat		[21]
2021	The Dig	William Grimes		[22]

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Television

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Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2007	Trial & Retribution	Radi	Episode: "Curriculum Vitae"	[23]
	Britz	Matloob	Miniseries; 2 episodes	[24]
2010	Wallander	Jamal Alheed	Episode: "Faceless Killers"	[25]
2011	Silent Witness	Zak Khan	Series 14 regular; 8 episodes	[26]
2011–2012	Beaver Falls	Adil "A-Rab" Hussain	Series regular; 12 episodes	[27]
2013	The Guilty	DS Vinesh Roy	Miniseries; 3 episodes	[28]
2014	The Missing	Malik Suri	Series 1 regular; 7 episodes	[29]
2015	Arthur & George	George Edalji	Miniseries; 3 episodes	[30]
	Doctor Who	Bennett	Recurring role, 2 episodes	[31]
2016	Line of Duty	PC Hari Bains	Series 3 regular; 4 episodes	[32]
2017–2018	Ackley Bridge	Samir Qureshi	Series regular; 9 episodes	[33]
2018	Hang Ups	Ryan Mehta	Recurring role; 2 episodes	[34]
	Informer	Imran Aziz	Series regular; 5 episodes	[35]
2020	Cold Courage	DCI Peter Chandra	Series regular; 8 episodes	[36]
2022	The Fear Index	Hugo Quarry	Miniseries; 4 episodes	[37]
	Avenue 5	Lucas Sato	Series 2 regular; 7 episodes	[38]
2022–2024	Funny Woman	Dennis Mahindra	Series regular; 10 episodes	[39]
2023	Top Boy	Isaac	Episode: "If We Are Not Monsters"	[40]
2023–2024	Everyone Else Burns	Elder Samson	Series regular; 11 episodes	[41][42]
2026	Hijack	Robert Lang	Series 2 regular; 6 episodes	[43]

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