Ismail Bashey
Ismail originally hails from Bombay, India where he began his acting career at a fairly young age, taking an active part in every school production from Shakespeare to Moliere. He began performing on stage professionally in Musical Theatre in productions such as Grease; They Are Playing our Song and Best of Broadway. He has trained extensively in jazz ballet under the guidance of Karla Singh and Shiamak Davar. He then moved to New York and began his acting career in the Big Apple. He trained at the Lee Strasberg theater Institute in New York for 3 years. During that time he was working on the local south Asian cable channels such as ITV and ATN as a TV host introducing Music videos and Bollywood tidbits. He then began the auditioning circuit around that time and landed some guest roles in independent features such as the Tic Code (starring Gregory Hines). He also began acting on the popular Zee TV drama Mausam that was filmed in New York and Bombay. He was recently seen in the independent feature film Wings of Hope for which he won Best Actor at the Cinevue International film festival.
Known For
Credits
- 2023 · Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse as Additional Voices (voice)
- 2022 · Ms. Marvel as Flight Passenger (voice)
- 2022 · Zafar as Zafar
- 2021 · American Eid as Altaf
- 2015 · Rosewood as Rishi Singh
- 2014 · Madam Secretary as Ahmet Avci
- 2014 · Growing Up Fisher as Olivier
- 2013 · The Reluctant Fundamentalist as Pak-Punjab Deli Customer
- 2012 · Elementary as Quadir Durrani
- 2012 · Desperate Endeavors as Ram
- 2012 · Scandal as President Razani
- 2011 · Aks as
- 2009 · Ishq Junoon Deewangi as Behram Omar
- 2006 · Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World as Various (voice)
- 2004 · Messengers as Arjen Bhasen
- 2004 · Ball and Chain as Ashol
- 2003 · NCIS as Nabi
- 2002 · Rollerball as Indian Sports Announcer
- 2001 · Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Yossi Almaliakh
- 2001 · Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Patel
- 2001 · The Warrior as The Warrior (voice)
- 1999 · Third Watch as Taxi Driver
- 1999 · Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Dr. Dhar
- 1999 · The Sopranos as Dr. Mehta
- 1990 · Law & Order as Harish Singh