Shaz Khan

Shaz Khan
Khan at 2015 Moor Premiere in Pakistan
Born	Shazli Hafeez Khan
Alma mater	Pennsylvania State University Pace University
Occupation	Actor / Filmmaker
Years active	2008 – Present
Website	Official website

Shazli Hafeez Khan better known as Shaz Khan is a Pakistani–American actor. He made his debut in the Pakistani feature film Moor (2015).

Khan was born in Oxnard, California. He spent his childhood between Pakistan and the United States, eventually settling in the suburbs of Philadelphia. After high school, Khan ended up attending Pennsylvania State University completing a B.S. in finance. He worked for a Fortune 500 company in the banking industry, though it would only last a few years. Khan ultimately left his stable job to pursue acting in New York City.

The next few years were spent attending the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University, completing an MFA in acting. During this time, he worked in numerous plays and independent films, building his experience. Khan established a reputation for doing whatever it took to immerse himself in a character. For his thesis play Hello Out There, he drove to a ghost town in Texas to do research, sleeping overnight in the haunted jail by himself. For the short film Flutter, Khan spent a month getting into the physiological state to play a young cancer patient, including losing 25 pounds and shaving his head and eyebrows. He also ventured into some experimental work by making his own series of short films, writing characters for himself while he was auditioning for roles. Among them was a young sadistic Oscar Wilde in Importance of Earnest as well as a deluded boxer Ibby in Say It Ain't So.