Nazeem Hussain
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| Born |
21 April 1986 Burwood, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Medium | Stand-up, television, radio, film |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Genres | Observational comedy, satire, character comedy, sketch comedy, improvisational comedy, hidden camera, practical joke |
| Subject(s) | Racism, racism in Australia, political humour, race relations, islamic humour, islamophobia, protest, social commentary, character comedy |
| Notable works and roles | Salam Café, Legally Brown |
Nazeem Hussain (born 21 April 1986) is an Australian comedian, actor, and radio presenter of Sri Lankan descent. He is best known as creator and star of comedy show Legally Brown, and one half of the comedy duo Fear of a Brown Planet, along with Aamer Rahman.
Hussain's Muslim parents grew up in Sri Lanka. After his parents got married, they moved to Australia in the 1970s. At the time, his mother, Mumtaz Hamid, had never left Sri Lanka before.
Hussain was born and brought up in Burwood, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in a Muslim family. Hussain is the second child of three children; he has two sisters. Hussain's younger sister Azmeena Hussain (born 1987), is a lawyer and an associate at a law firm.
In March 2015, Hussain told Confidential that former A Current Affair host Jana Wendt visited his family home unannounced to do an interview in 1993 when Hussain was six years old, during height of conflict in Iraq with dictator Saddam Hussein at the helm. Her target was Nazeem's father, Shereen, and the angle was that his name was listed as S. Hussain in the phone book. Six months later, Hussain's father left for Sri Lanka and never returned.
Hussain attended Melbourne High School. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws at Deakin University.
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