Adil Hussain profile
Actor profile

Adil Hussain

5th October 1963 Goalpara, Assam, India Acting

Adil Hussain (born October 5, 1963) is an Indian actor who has worked in Indian cinema, including art house cinema and mainstream Bollywood, as well as international cinema, in films such as The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Life of Pi (both 2012). He received National Film Awards (Special Jury) at the 2017 National Film Awards for Hotel Salvation and Maj Rati Keteki. He has starred in English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Norwegian and French films. 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, The Hague. He is also a visiting faculty at his alma mater, the National School of Drama.

77 Movies 8 TV Shows 92 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Mercy poster
Mercy 5th May 2025 as Father Joel
Ulajh poster
Ulajh 2nd August 2024 as Dhanraj Bhatia
Axone poster
Axone 2nd October 2019 as Guest Appearance
MEAL poster
MEAL 27th April 2019 as Father
2.0 poster
2.0 29th November 2018 as Home Minister
Maati poster
Maati 13th July 2018 as Jamil
Aiyaary poster
Aiyaary 16th February 2018 as Retd. Colonel Mukesh Kapoor
Mantra poster
Mantra 17th March 2017 as Man from Jharkhand
Force 2 poster
Force 2 18th November 2016 as Brijesh Yadav
Parched poster
Parched 14th November 2015 as Mystic Lover
Yatchan poster
Yatchan 11th September 2015 as Selvam/Vetri
Umrika poster
Umrika 29th July 2015 as Agent de l’Immigration
Zed Plus poster
Zed Plus 28th November 2014 as Aslam Puncturewala
Tigers poster
Tigers 8th November 2014 as Bilal
Ishqiya poster
Ishqiya 29th January 2010 as Vidyadhar Verma
Kaminey poster
Kaminey 14th August 2009 as Flight Purser