Iresh Zaker

Zaker was born on 6 November 1976 to actors Aly Zaker and Sara Zaker.^[2][3][4] He spent his early childhood with his younger sister, Sriya Sharbojoya, in Bangladesh. He completed his initial schooling at Scholastica in Dhaka in 1994.^[5][6] After that, he went to the United States and enrolled at Grinnell College, in Iowa.^[5][7] Then he moved to Wisconsin and graduated from Lawrence University in 2000. Two years later he finished his master's degree in development economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.^[5][6]

In his education life, he and some of his friends formed the musical group Cryptic Fate, which became popular, but he later left the band.^[8]

After completion of his graduation, he got a job in the United States and planned his future there. After some years, however, he returned to Bangladesh.^[9] At first he worked as a voice artist, doing radio dramas, documentaries, and commercials. He did a voice-over for Sisimpur, the popular Bangladeshi version of the children's television series Sesame Street.^[10]

He debuted as a television actor in 2006 as Shahed in the single-episode TV play Batasher Khacha, with his father, Aly Zaker, playing his on-screen father.^[11] In 2012, he debuted on the big screen in the film Chorabali, directed by Redoan Rony.^[12] He won the 2015 National Film Awards Best Performance in a Negative Role for his portrayal of antagonist Danny in Chuye Dile Mon, produced by his mother, Sara Zaker.^[13][14][15]

As well as his TV and film work, Zaker is group managing director of Asiatic 360 (his family's marketing and communication company) and a director of Radio Shadhin, one of the Asiatic Group companies.^[16][17][18]

• 2015 National Film Awards Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role for Chuye Dile Mon^[15]