Riz MC was born on 1st of December in 1982, in Wembley, London, to a British Pakistani family as Riz Ahmed. His parents belong to Muhajir ethnic background, moved to England from Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
The British nationality holder, Ahmed is a descendant of Sir Shah Muhammad Sulaiman, the British-Indian Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court in Uttar Pradesh.
Ahmed completed his high school education from Merchant Taylor’s School, Northwood, with the scholarship. He is a graduate of Christ Church, Oxford University with a degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. He then studied acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Riz Ahmed pursue his acting career professionally in 2006 with his debut movie, “The Road to Guantanamo," portraying the character of Shafiq. In the same year, he debuted on TV through the “The Path to 9/11” as Yosri.
With full dedication and hard-work, Riz Ahmed won several prestigious awards. His first award was “Geneva Cinema Tout Ecran Award” for Best Actor for his role in the movie, “Shifty." For “Four Lions” he was nominated for three awards including “British Independent Film Award," “Evening Standard British Film Award” and “London Film Critics Award."
Similarly, he won “Berlin International Film Festival Award” for Shooting Star. As a director and writer, he received “Nashville Film Festival Award” for Best Live Action Short for "Daytimer." His role as Rick in “Night Crawler” received nine nominations.
Summing up, the actor won “Primetime Emmy Award” and “Gold Derby Award” for “The Night Of." Recently he got the nomination for “Primetime Emmy Award” and “Gold Derby Award” for his work in the TV series “Girl."
Apart from acting industry, Ahmed is active in the music industry. Started from his mid-teens, appearing on pirate radio and in freestyle rap battles; currently, he is one of the famous rappers of the music world.
Ahmed won “Asian Music Award” for his debut single “The Post 9/11 Blues”. Till the date, he released eight singles including “Radar,' “Shifty," “All of You," etc.
His debut studio album, “Microscope” was re-released by Tru Thoughts and produced by Lazersonic, Redinho which is 76:09 minutes long.
As of now, Riz Ahmed is possibly single and unmarried. He remains silent on his personal matters including the information related to his affair, girlfriend.
The actor, Ahmed earns a good salary through his professional career as an actor. His music career also adds an enormous amount to his bank account. As per our record, he has an estimated net worth of $3 million.
