Raza Jaffrey

Raza Jaffrey is an English actor and singer. On CBS's medical drama Code Black, he played Neal Hudson. He is well recognized for his role as Zafar Younis in BBC One's spy drama Spooks. In season 4 of the Showtime series Homeland, he played Pakistani Lieutenant Colonel Aasar Khan.

For Netflix, he is known for his role in the 2021 action thriller film, Sweet Girl, in which he plays, Vinod Shah.

Biography
Jaffrey was born in Liverpool, Merseyside, the son of an Agra-born Indian sea captain and a Liverpool-born English mother. He grew up in London and attended Dulwich College from 1986 to 1991.

At Manchester University, he studied English and drama, as well as performing at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. During his time at university, he performed in several plays at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, including Brian Friel's The London Vertigo, as well as Henry VIII and A Comedy of Errors at the Pendley Open Air Shakespeare Festival.

He worked with Royal Shakespeare Company chief associate director Gregory Doran during his final year at Manchester, which he credits as one of the factors that inspired him to apply to Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and eventually become a professional actor.

Movies

 * Sweet Girl