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Adil Hussain

Adil Hussain
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Hussain in 2015
Born (1963-10-05) 5 October 1963 (age 53)
Goalpara, Assam, India
Nationality Indian
Occupation Actor
Years active 1999–present
Height (5 ft 11 in (1.80 m))

Adil Hussain (Assamese: আদিল হুছেইন, born 5 October 1963) is an Indian stage, television and film actor from the state of Assam, who works in mainstream Bollywood as well as art house cinema. He has worked in International Film like The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Life of Pi (both 2012).He has acted in English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam and French films.

Born and brought up in Goalpara, Assam, where his father was a teacher, Hussain was the youngest of seven children. Hussain acted in school plays. He left home at age 18 to study philosophy at B. Borooah College, Guwahati, he started acting in college plays and performing as a stand-up comedian. He also mimicked popular Bollywood actors in between the performances of a local stand-up comedian group, the Bhaya Mama Group. He worked as a stand-up comedian for six years, joined a mobile theatre and also did some local cinema, before moving to Delhi, where he studied at National School of Drama (1990–1993). He also studied at the Drama Studio London on a Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship.

After his return to India in 1994, Hussain joined with the mobile 'Hengul Theater' in Assam, here he worked for three years, before moving to Delhi. He started his stage career in Delhi, though he continued training under Khalid Tyabji. After Tyabji he trained with Shaupon Boshu at Aurobindo Ashram, Puducherry, before starting training with Dilip Shankar in Delhi. As an actor, he first received acclaim in Othello: A Play in Black and White (1999), which was awarded the Edinburgh Fringe First, and later Goodbye Desdemona also directed by Roysten Abel. He remained the artistic director and Trainer of the Society for Artists and Performers in Hampi from 2004 to 2007, and a visiting faculty at Royal Conservatory of Performing Arts, Hague. He is also a visiting faculty at his alma mater, the National School of Drama.


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