- Friday, April 26, 2024
By: Rithika Siddhartha
BRITISH Asian actor Riz Ahmed won his first Emmy for portraying a man who falls foul of the US judicial system in HBO’s crime limited series The Night Of. Ahmed, who has become the first south Asian actor to win an acting gong, said in his acceptance speech, “It’s always strange reaping the rewards of a story that’s based on real world suffering, but if this show has shown a light on some of the prejudice in our society [like] Islamophobia, some of the injustice in our justice system maybe that’s something.” Other winners on the night were Aziz Ansari…
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