Fahad Yousuf Khan

Fahad (born Fahad Yousuf Khan on 14 August 1988) is a professional Actor, writer, teacher, athlete and digital marketing expert from Pakistan. Khan is known as one of the finest actors in Pakistani theatre, television and film industry. He is the one of only few actors of Pakistan who got proper education and training in performing arts.
Khan has excellent command over search engine optimization, social media marketing and content marketing. He has 10+ years of working experience as digital marketing expert but left the job life due to rapidly increasing trend of organizational politics and favoritism culture in the private sector companies of Karachi. He debut his acting career as a theatre actor in 2015 after completing his diploma in performing arts from Actor Studio Karachi. His batch performed the historical theatre play Dark Room written by Sarmad Sehbai in PACC Auditorium. He acted the character of "Ismail", a school boy which is highly appreciated by the critics. Further, he visited Lahore in December 2015 to perform another theatre play "Juloos" (written by Badal Sarkar) in Ajoka Theatre where his character was "Munna". Later on, he performed the same play in Arts Council of Pakistan.
Early Life and Childhood
Khan was born in Federal B. Area, Karachi into a middle class Urdu speaking family. His paternal ancestors were Yousufzai Pashtun from Afghanistan who migrated and settled to Junagarh, India when Ahmad Shah Abdali attacked on British India (Third Battle of Panipat) to defeat Marathas. His family further migrated to Karachi, Pakistan at the time of partition 1947. Khan has two elder sisters and one younger brother.
His childhood and teenage time were the worst years of his struggle. As being an elder son of his family, he adopted lots of responsibilities for financial support and fight with poverty due to the inefficient and lazy nature of his father. When he was in matric, he started to sell french fries in front of his apartments by acquiring cooking machine from his friend on rent. He further put stall of buntings and flags on the occasion of every year. After completing matric, Khan began to teach home tuition to the students of class 5 to matric. He was good in Mathematics and his sisters also joined him to open a small academy of teaching students in his home to pay house rent and fulfill other financial needs.
Career
Digital Marketing Expert
He started his first job after Intermediate as a Data entry clerk in a private firm. The company was a large E-commerce setup that's why he learn search engine optimization and further tools of digital marketing there. During the tenure of 10+ years of his job life, Khan worked in 4 IT companies.
Acting
Khan loves acting since childhood. He always took part in tablos and stage dramas in his school. He is also fond of watching dramas and movies. In 2013, he watched theatre play Andhera Ujala first time and observed that live acting has a different charm rather than TV and Cinema. Khan's dream to be an actor didn’t allow him to sleep and after the tough routine of full-time office job, he didn’t take rest and always kept himself involve in different activities related to acting. He visited almost all the production houses of Karachi to give auditions but his efforts were useless.
In 2014, Khan met Ali Sheikh, a famous actor of Pakistani showbiz industry. Ali realized his talent and passion towards acting and decided to launch him into the market after polishing his acting skills. On that time, Ali was opening his own acting academy Actor Studio Karachi. By realizing the bad financial condition of Khan, Ali offered him free of cost admission in theatre arts diploma as a student of first batch. Khan studied acting there by heart with complete concentration. He is highly inspired from Pakistani super stars and Waheed Murad. From India, Aamir Khan is also a big inspiration for him.
Personal Life
He lives in Karachi with his parents and younger brother. Khan's nature is very reserved, conservative, serious, and have limited social gathering. Khan is a dedicated body builder and fitness freak. He hates and strictly avoid smoking, drinking and any other type of drug and alcoholic use. He also has allergic problem from the smoke of cigarette.

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