Riz Ahmed Reveals His New Wife is Author Fatima Farheen Mirza

UPDATED with latest: The Santa Barbara Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled the recipients of its Virtuosos Award, given annually to a group recognizing their noteworthy performances in film. The honors will be bestowed Saturday, April 3.

According to Riz Ahmed, he and Steven Yeun have been on “similar journeys” in Hollywood.

Steven Yeun (“Minari”) and Riz Ahmed (“Sound of Metal”) sat down for a virtual chat for Variety‘s Actors on Actors, presented by Amazon Studios. For more, click here.In Lee Isaac Chung’s life-affirming “Minari,” Steven Yeun plays Jacob Yi, a Korean American dad who pursues his goal of financial success by moving his unenthusiastic family to a farm in 1980s Arkansas.

Clayton Davis Riz Ahmed, one of the top contenders in the best actor race, is being honored by the Miami Film Festival with its inaugural Impact Award.“Sound of Metal,” co-written and directed by Darius Marder, tells the story of a heavy metal drummer (Ahmed) who begins to lose his hearing.

Riz Ahmed-starring Sound of Metal has been released – you can read it below.Directed by Darius Marder, the film, which was released last year in cinemas and on Amazon Prime, follows Ruben, a heavy metal drummer who grapples with his immediate and intermittent hearing loss.Ahmed plays Ruben, who struggles with the prospect of becoming deaf while also confronting his past addiction to drugs, having been sober for four years.

Palm Springs International Film Awards.The organization announced on Wednesday that the 38-year-old actor will receive this year's Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor. «Riz Ahmed delivers one of the most complex and moving on-screen performances of the year,» Festival Chairman Harold Matzner said in a statement. «In Sound of Metal, the film tells the emotional journey of Ruben, a musician who learns he is losing his hearing and must deal with this new reality.

Riz Ahmed and Game Of Thrones‘ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau are set to star in a new animated documentary called Flee.The Danish film is set to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this year, and Ahmed and Coster-Waldau will serve as executive producers, as Variety reports.Later this year, an English-language version of the film will then debut later in 2021, featuring the two stars as the lead voice actors.Per Variety, a synopsis for Flee reads: “Flee tells the story of Amin Nawabi (a pseudonym), a

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentRiz Ahmed, a leading awards contender this year with “Sound of Metal,” and “Game of Thrones” star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau have joined the Danish animated documentary “Flee,” which plays at Sundance, as executive producers.

Bee Gees star Sir Barry Gibb has revealed he and his wife had an intimate encounter in Doctor Who’s TARDIS the night they met. The 74-year-old Stayin’ Alive singer has been married to former Miss Edinburgh Linda Gray since 1970, after meeting during a recording of BBC’s Top Of The Pops.

Riz Ahmed's Left Handed Films has signed a first-look TV production deal with Amazon Studios. The move comes as Ahmed is enjoying rave reviews for his starring role in the Amazon film Sound of Metal.

Riz Ahmed, star of Amazon-backed feature film Sound of Metal, is staying in business with the streamer after striking a first-look deal with the company.

If the name Riz Ahmed comes to mind and you immediately think of “Venom” or “Rogue One,” that’s understandable. Those are probably the actor’s two biggest roles to date.

In a year that has stymied many of his peers, Riz Ahmed has been incredibly prolific, with two 2020 feature releases—Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal and Bassam Tariq’s Mogul Mowgli—as well as an album, The Long Goodbye, which came with a powerful short imagining life in a racist, post-Brexit Britain.

woman Riz Ahmed secretly married during lockdown? US writer Fatima Farheen Mirza, according to the actor’s interview on the Tonight Show.  Mirza is a successful novelist and has a CV to rival her new husband’s: her debut novel, A Place for Us, is a New York Times bestseller and the first to be published by a new imprint belonging to a very A-list actress.

© @Copyright HELLO! Hello! Magazine Riz Ahmed has opened up about his recent wedding, revealing the identity of his new wife as American novelist Fatima Farheen Mirza. MORE: Bridgerton heartthrob Rege-Jean Page was in Harry Potter - did you spot him?The British-Pakistani actor surprised fans earlier this week when he mentioned that he was married during an appearance on the podcast Grounded with Louis Theroux.

Riz Ahmed. You start chatting, strike up a friendship, and then, a few years later, you're married.

© @Copyright HELLO! Hello! Magazine Riz Ahmed has opened up about his recent wedding, revealing the identity of his new wife as American novelist Fatima Farheen Mirza. MORE: Bridgerton heartthrob Rege-Jean Page was in Harry Potter - did you spot him?The British-Pakistani actor surprised fans earlier this week when he mentioned that he was married during an appearance on the podcast Grounded with Louis Theroux.

Riz Ahmed has revealed he got married in secret to bestselling author Fatima Farheen Mirza after meeting her in a cafe. The actor mentioned being married in passing while speaking on a podcast earlier this week, and has now given more details during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

Riz Ahmed has revealed his new wife is the US novelist Fatima Farheen Mirza. The British star of Sound of Metal shared earlier this week on broadcaster Louis Theroux’s podcast Grounded, how he had tied the knot but he did not reveal his wife’s name.

Riz Ahmed is a married man! The 38-year-old actor tied the knot a few months ago, he revealed on the podcast  before sharing more details on on Wednesday night. Ahmed's wife is novelist Fatima Farheen Mirza, and they met in a New York cafe while he was preparing for his role in The actor clarified to Fallon that he didn't mean to keep his wedding a secret — he just never publicly shared the information. «It's a weird one, isn't it? I guess because we live in a social media age if you don't,