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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1969-01-13

Place of Birth

London, England

Rehan Sheikh

Biography

Rehan Sheikh (born January 13, 1969) is a British-Pakistani filmmaker, actor, director, writer, playwright, producer, and former television host. He is best known for The Castle: Aik Umeed (2001), Inkaar (2019), for which he was nominated for Best Actor at Lux Style Awards, and Sanjha (2011-2012), which earned him a Hum Awards nomination. Sheikh started his career on stage in South London, notably working in Tamasha Theatre Company's Women of the Dust in 1992. While visiting Pakistan during holidays the next year, he wrote, directed, and acted in a play in Rawalpindi, where he was spotted by renowned playwright and theatre director Sarmad Sehbai. Sehbai got him his first television role in Aaghosh (1993). Sheikh remained in Pakistan and went on do a number of popular drama serials and also hosted the short-lived travel show Travel Guide of Pakistan.

Known for

Rewind with Samina Peerzada

Rewind with Samina Peerzada

Each episode features a Pakistani celebrity interviewed by Peerzada about their journeys, struggles, challenges and success.

Apnas

Apnas

A British Asian Mancunian is drawn in to the criminal underworld by his notorious uncle. Everything is at stake as his competition with his cousin reaches a deadly level.

Udaari

Udaari

The drama revolves around two sisters, Sheedan and Sajida. Sheedan is married to Majid. While, Sajida is a widowed wife of Parvez, friend of Imtiaz. Sheedan, a eldest sister, has a daughter, Meeran and a son. Sajida has a daughter, Zebo. Imtiaz proposes Sajida but she ignores. She asks from Sheedan and many others but all say positive. She marries him.

Akbari Asghari

Akbari Asghari

A romantic comedy about two sisters and their journey from a western to Oriental life.

Besharam

Besharam

Story deals with the social issues of glamor industry, upper-class family, and its struggles.

Akhri Barish

Akhri Barish

Sadqay Tumhare

Sadqay Tumhare

An arranged engagement between a village girl and her city cousin shows signs of true love, but an indiscretion decades ago could doom their romance.

Manto

Manto

The controversial and troubled Indo-Pakistani writer Saadat Hasan Manto finds his artistic choices challenged by censors.

Sammi

Sammi

The series centers social issues on the rural society revolving around the concept of Vanni, the series shows moral lessons against common issues such as gender discrimination. Depicting the Vanni concept storyline revolves around the journey of Sammi, a young girl who was sold off by her family to the Chaudhry family where her brother had killed her fiancé. Simultaneously it revolves around reality based issues with different characters within the same plot.

Aik Nayee Cinderella

Aik Nayee Cinderella

The story is about Meesha who lives with her two step sisters and step mother. She is mistreated by her step mother and does all the house hold work. Meesha meets the rich and dashing Mayer. Meesha, thinking that he is her prince charming, who has come to rescue her and put an end to all her troubles, tries to win his heart.

Chupan Chupai

Chupan Chupai

Inept kidnappers need both luck and logic to stay one step ahead of the determined cop who is hot on their trail, but are laughably lacking both.

The Pink Shirt

The Pink Shirt

Recently separated from her husband, a modern woman is caught between a new, compatible partner and her mother-in-law's persistent reconciliation efforts.

Jugnoo

Jugnoo

Series narrates the story of a young and fun-loving girl Jugnoo, who had lost her father at an early age. She along with her mother Shah Jahan, lives with her maternal aunt Jahangir. Despite facing a lot of troubles and hardships in her life, Jugnoo always proves to be confident and jolly girl.

Azad

Azad

An off beat comedy drama set in modern day Pakistan about a free spirited RJ who hosts a morning show until a chance encounter leads him to confront his own ideas of freedom.