Bilal Ashraf | |
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Born |
karachi |
October 12, 1979
Nationality | Pakistani |
Other names | Bilal Ashraf Malik |
Occupation | Actor, Visual effects director, |
Years active | 2014 – present |
Parent(s) | Maqsood Ashraf - Shaheen Ashraf |
Bilal Ashraf is a Pakistani model and visual effects director. He started as a visual effects director and then pursued his career in acting after making a cameo appearance in the film O21 (2014). Bilal is set to appear in upcoming six films.
Despite Bilal making a cameo appearance in the 2014 film O21, he is to make is full acting debut in the 2016 Film Janaan alongside Armeena Khan. He is also expected to make star in the upcoming Action Films such as Yalghaar and Waar 2.
Bilal career history consists of being a hedge fund consultant in New York and was a double major in finance and took art and psychology as a minor. Bilal's passion for art and creativity led him to quit his job in New York and moved to London, where he studied animation and visual effects, which has led him to be a visual effects director today.
Bilal studied visual effects direction at an liberal arts college, known as Franklin and Marshall in Pennsylvania,United States. He then went on to do double major in Arts. Later he went to Escape Studios in London to learn Animation. He claims to have 10 years of experience behind the Camera.
Bilal was on the chubbier side up until the age of twelve, when he gained a fondness towards sports such as cricket, volleyball and basketball, as well as the use of the gym, which helped to tone and lose his weight. He even bunked classes for sports!
Whilst in college, Bilal worked at Starbucks as a barista, and honed the skill of coffee making.
Bilal's inspiration and reason to move back to Pakistan and become an actor stems from his late sister, who was a film director, and who had a vision to bring Pakistani cinema to an international calibre. Bilal ashraf is emerging as best personality man after Janan..