Ali Fazal

Actor, Producer, Music Department

Birthdate: October 15, 1986 (39 Years Old)

Birthplace: Lucknow, India

Ali Fazal is a Hindi movie star who has broken through to co-star in American and British productions. Although he established a major presence in Bollywood cinema in 2009, Fazal’s feature debut was in the American-made comedy-drama, The Other End of the Line (2007), with Jesse Metcalfe and Shriya Saran, directed by James Dodson. After eight years as a rising Bollywood star, Fazal landed a role in his first major Hollywood movie, Furious 7 (2015), directed by James Wan and starring Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jason Statham, Dwayne Johnson, Kurt Russell, Michelle Rodriguez, and Tyrese Gibson, and grossing $1.5 billion worldwide (marking it as the fourth-highest-grossing movie in history at the time of release. Ali Fazal’s first starring role in an English-language production was director Stephen Frears’ Victoria & Abdul (2017), co-starring Judi Dench, alongside Eddie Izzard and Michael Gambon, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Fazal’s next English-language movie role was in the Agatha Christie adaptation, Death on the Nile (2022), directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Branagh, Tom Bateman, Annette Bening, and Letitia Wright. Fazal co-starred with Gerard Butler in the Iranian-themed drama, Kandahar (2023), directed by Ric Roman Waugh, with Navid Negahban and Travis Fimmel, and released by Open Road Films.

Personal Life
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Personal life

Ali Fazal was born in Delhi and raised in India’s Uttar Pradesh state in the city of Lucknow. His father, Mohammad Rafique, and his late mother (who died in 2020) divorced after Fazal’s birth, and for most of his childhood, Fazal was raised by his grandparents. Fazal attended International Indian School in Dammam; La Martiniere College in Lucknow; and the all-boys boarding school The Doon School in Dehradun, where he began to explore acting and theater. Fazal’s college education was at Mumbai-based St. Xavier’s College. Fazal has been married to actor Richa Chadha since 2022 after the COVID-19 pandemic delayed their planned wedding. Fazal’s height is 5’ 11”.

Known For

Rule Breakers

Samir Sinha (2025)

Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi

Guddu (2018)

Victoria & Abdul

Abdul Karim (2017)

Happy Bhaag Jayegi

Guddu (2016)

Ali Fazal Movies

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2025 |
Rule Breakers
Rule Breakers
2025
Drama
In a nation where educating girls is rebellion, a visionary woman sparks hope and opposition. Their courage ignites a movement that could transform their nation forever.
asSamir Sinha
2019 |
Prassthanam
Prassthanam
2019
A rural politician marries a widow with kids and gains a respectable position. He trusts his stepson more than his own in political matters; thus upsetting his son beyond limits.
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asAyushmann Singh
2018 |
Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi
Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi
2018
Comedy
Harpreet Kaur, a woman who travels to China to find her fiance, gets mistakenly kidnapped by some thugs whose assignment was to abduct another woman of the same name travelling by the same flight.
asGuddu
2017 |
Victoria & Abdul
Victoria & Abdul
2017
Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
asAbdul Karim
2016 |
Happy Bhaag Jayegi
Happy Bhaag Jayegi
2016
Comedy, Romance
After fleeing an arranged marriage, a feisty Indian woman finds herself stranded in Pakistan where the ex-governor's son helps reunite her with her boyfriend.
asGuddu