
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.

The Illegal

عكس

عشق جنون ديوانگى

ザ・ソプラノズ 哀愁のマフィア

スパイダーマン:アクロス・ザ・スパイダーバース

SEAL TEAM/シール・チーム

LAW & ORDER: 性犯罪特捜班

ボストン・リーガル

Third Watch

CSI:マイアミ

NCIS ~ネイビー犯罪捜査班

エレメンタリー ホームズ&ワトソン in NY

LAW & ORDER: 犯罪心理捜査班

HOMELAND/ホームランド

Sleeper Cell

LAW&ORDER

Unforgettable

スキャンダル

American Eid

The Village

セサミストリート

In Plain Sight

Alias

ミリオンダラー・アーム

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Street

Rosewood

The Warrior

Growing Up Fisher

ミズ・マーベル

24 -TWENTY FOUR- レガシー

Little Senegal

Ball and Chain

The Virgin of Highland Park

Close to Home

The Tic Code

The Guru

Messengers

Café Mambo

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

ABCD

ローラーボール

Twisted

Zafar