Ismail Bashey

Biography

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

Ashol

Ball and Chain

Additional Voices (voice)

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Ram

Desperate Endeavors

Zafar

Zafar

Various (voice)

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

The Warrior (voice)

The Warrior

Indian Sports Announcer

Rollerball

Arjen Bhasen

Messengers

Pak-Punjab Deli Customer

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Altaf

American Eid

Dr. Davis

The Virgin of Highland Park

Mamujaan

The Illegal

Store Clerk

Street

Emcee (uncredited)

Million Dollar Arm

Various Characters (voice, uncredited)

The Guru

Foreman

Little Senegal

Cabbie #2

Café Mambo

News Vendor

ABCD

Indian Man

The Tic Code

Extra

Twisted