Adeel Ahmed

Adeel Ahmed (born 12 May 1988) is an American stage, television and film actor, whose career began following his first year at when he made his television debut in an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
Career
After his debut on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Ahmed starred in productions like the television pilot of Cashmere Mafia with Lucy Liu. He has also worked with Academy Award nominee writer Charles Fuller (A Soldier's Play/A Soldier's Story) in the stage production of The Woodpecker at the historic Cherry Lane Theatre and recently received rave reviews for his performance in the play, Voices From Guantanamo, where he played an innocent amputated prisoner interned at Guantanamo Bay.
He recently completed a sixteen episode television series, Malaal with director Mehreen Jabbar (Ramchand Pakistani) which is currently airing in Pakistan.
He also starred in the hit Off-Broadway play The Domestic Crusaders that was covered by Emma Thompson of The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the BBC, and NBC. He was positively mentioned in The New York Times review of the play, In her review of the play, Elizabeth Bachner of theater review site offoffoff.com, wrote he was "poignantly understated", and brought "something unique to his role, evoking empathy, outrage, and the urge to rescue".
Of his role in The Domestic Crusaders, Laurie Godstein of The New York Times wrote that just as does his character in the play, Ahmed "disappointed his parents when he abandoned premed in college. He wanted to study acting and, as a backup, sports management. When he told his parents, his mother took off her slipper and slapped him three times with it."

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