Nabhaan Rizwan
Nabhaan Rizwan is an actor, born 1997.
Nabhaan Rizwan has had an unusually fast six or seven years. Born in Essex in 1997, he came to attention in the crime drama Informer, a role that is not among the credits listed here, and had a small part as Sepoy Jondalar in 1917, one of the few faces in that film with time to register as a person rather than a position on a map.
What he does well is play young men who are performing confidence they do not have, and let the seam show. Frank Chaudhary in Station Eleven is the clearest case, funny and self-mythologising right up to the point where the act stops being useful in a collapsing world. He does a version of the same thing as RPG in Mogul Mowgli, in a story built around music and illness, and as Silas Huxley in Dope Girls.
KAOS gave him the showiest job so far, playing Dionysus as an exhausting, needy party god, and it brought him a British Academy Television Award nomination for Best Male Comedy Performance in 2025 as well as a BAFTA Rising Star nomination that year. He plays Noa in Film Club, and has Ronny Devereux in Agatha Christie's Seven Dials, Salim in Bait and the film Wicker ahead of him. He also records as a rapper under the name El Huxley, which explains a good deal about how comfortable he is with rhythm in dialogue.
Movies (4)
TV (6)
Where to start with Nabhaan Rizwan
Go to Station Eleven first, and specifically for what he does with Frank Chaudhary, a character who talks constantly and gives away almost nothing until he chooses to. It is the performance that made people start writing his name down.
KAOS is the loudest thing he has done and the best demonstration of his comic timing, a needy Dionysus who never stops working the room. Mogul Mowgli is the toughest watch here and the most interesting, a small British film about music, family and a body that stops cooperating. 1917 is a single sequence and worth knowing about. Then Film Club for the lighter register, Dope Girls for the period swagger, and The Last Letter from Your Lover if you want the glossy commercial version of him.