Vincent Ebrahim

Vincent Ebrahim

Born: January 1, 1951
in East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Vincent Ebrahim (born 1951) is a South African actor and comedian. He is known for portraying the roles of Ashwin in the BBC later Sky One comedy series The Kumars at No. 42 (2001–2006, 2014), pub landlord Bobby in the BBC One comedy series After You've Gone (2007–2008), Robert "Big Bob" Gupta in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks (2014) and Hashim Elamin in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street (2021).

Movies for Vincent Ebrahim...

New Material
Title: New Material
Character: Ebrahim Kaif
Released: October 2, 2021
Type: Movie
Cassim Caif is a young Muslim man living in Fordsburg, Johannesburg. Heʼs balancing the demands of a new marriage, a young child, and living in a house with his ageing parents with being one of South Africaʼs few Muslim stand-up comedians. His father, Ebrahim, has reluctantly accepted his sonʼs chosen career—for now—but is still simmering over the issue.
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Title: Starstruck
Character: Sunay
Released: April 25, 2021
Type: TV
A drunken New Year's Eve hook-up becomes far more complicated for Jessie when she discovers her one night stand is actually a film star.
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National Theatre Live: Dara
Title: National Theatre Live: Dara
Character: Emperor Shah Jahan
Released: December 1, 2020
Type: Movie
1659 Mughal, India. Two brothers, Dara and Aurangzeb, are both heirs to the Muslim empire. Dara, the crown prince, has the love of the people – and of his emperor father – but younger brother Aurangzeb holds a different vision for India’s future. Now they fight ferociously for succession.
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The Queen and I
Title: The Queen and I
Character: Judge
Released: December 24, 2018
Type: Movie
A new republican prime minister strips the British monarch and her family of their money and assets, and forces them to live on a rundown council estate.
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Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
Title: Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
Character: Nikhil
Released: October 11, 2018
Type: Movie
Colin has rented a stately country home for his extended family’s New Year celebrations. He’s the centre of attention until his estranged brother David unexpectedly arrives, throwing the family dynamic far off orbit.
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Title: Killing Eve
Character: Mike
Released: April 8, 2018
Type: TV
A security consultant hunts for a ruthless assassin. Equally obsessed with each other, they go head to head in an epic game of cat-and-mouse.
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Allied
Title: Allied
Character: Driver in Desert
Released: November 17, 2016
Type: Movie
In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
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National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Title: National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
India is surging with global ambition. But beyond the luxury hotels surrounding Mumbai airport lies a makeshift slum, full of people with plans of their own. Zehrunisa and her son Abdul aim to recycle enough rubbish to fund a proper house. Sunil, twelve and stunted, wants to eat until he’s as tall as Kalu the thief. Asha seeks to steal government anti-poverty funds to turn herself into a ‘first-class person’, while her daughter Manju intends to become the slum’s first female graduate. But their schemes are fragile; global recession threatens the garbage trade, and another slum-dweller is about to make an accusation that will destroy herself and shatter the neighbourhood.
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Title: The Kumars
Character: Ashwin Kumar
Released: January 15, 2014
Type: TV
Having suffered hard during the economic downturn, The Kumars are now living in a flat in Hounslow behind the shop that Ashwin now runs. Sanjeev is divorced from his wife of nearly two years and Ashwin has manged to get a sponsorship deal that has allowed him to resurrect the family's talk show, which takes place in the living room of their flat.
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The Physician
Title: The Physician
Character: Tughrul
Released: December 25, 2013
Type: Movie
England, 1021. Rob Cole, a boy born in a miserable mining town, swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many years, a quest for knowledge besieged by countless challenges and sacrifices, leads him to the remote Isfahan, in Persia, where he meets Ibn Sina, the greatest healer of his time.
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Material
Title: Material
Character: Ebrahim Kaif
Released: February 9, 2012
Type: Movie
Cassim Kaif is a young Muslim man who works in his father's fabric shop in Fordsburg, Johannesburg. In the family tradition, Cassim, as the only son, is expected to take over the family business from his father.
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Title: After You've Gone
Character: Bobby
Released: January 12, 2007
Type: TV
After You've Gone was a British comedy that aired on BBC One from 12 January 2007 to 21 December 2008. Starring Nicholas Lyndhurst, Celia Imrie, Dani Harmer and Ryan Sampson, After You've Gone was created by Fred Barron, who also created My Family. The writers include Barron, Ian Brown, Katie Douglas, James Hendie, Danny Robins, Andrea Solomons and Dan Tetsell. Three series and two Christmas specials aired, and work on scripts for a fourth series had already begun when the BBC withdrew the commission in November 2008 and cancelled the series.
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Title: New Street Law
Released: May 4, 2006
Type: TV
The exploits and cases of two rival barristers' chambers with very different attitudes to justice.
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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Title: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Character: Mr. Caliche (voice)
Released: September 4, 2005
Type: Movie
Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal, Gromit, investigate a mystery in Nick Park's animated adventure, in which the lovable inventor and his intrepid pup run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods that turn their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest.
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Title: Meet the Magoons
Released: August 19, 2005
Type: TV
Meet the Magoons is a six-part comedy television series in the United Kingdom aired on Channel 4 in 2005, directed by and starring Hardeep Singh Kohli. The main characters are a Punjabi family who live in Glasgow, and own an Indian restaurant called "The Spice". It received mixed reviews. A. A. Gill hoped it "might well evolve into something classic" and Nancy Banks-Smith of The Guardian called it "modern to the point of surreal". A second series was not commissioned.
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Title: Ideal
Character: Mr Rupani
Released: January 11, 2005
Type: TV
Sitcom about a small-time dope dealer and his strange collection of acquaintances.
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Title: The Kumars at No. 42
Released: November 12, 2001
Type: TV
The Kumars at No. 42 is a British comedy show. It won an International Emmy in 2002 and 2003. It ran for seven series totalling 53 episodes.
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Title: Bedtime
Character: Mohammad
Released: August 28, 2001
Type: TV
Bedtime was a British comedy-drama written and directed by Andy Hamilton and broadcast by the BBC. It ran for three series for a total of fifteen episodes between August 2001 and December 2003. The first two series had six episodes each and the third series had three episodes. Series 1 and 2 were released on DVD.
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We Are the Elephant
Title: We Are the Elephant
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Documentary film on apartheid
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Springbok
Title: Springbok
Released: August 16, 1976
Type: Movie
A person of color pretends to be white in order to make the Springbok team