Vincent Ebrahim’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Vincent Ebrahim (born 6 December 1951) is a South African actor of mixed ethnicity. He studied drama at the University of Cape Town. He is the brother of South African actress Vinette Ebrahim, who is best known for playing the role of Charmaine Beukes in the Afrikaans soap opera Sewende Laan. He immigrated to England in 1976.

Stage roles

Ebrahim spent a decade with community theatre companies performing in plays such as

• Away From It – Common Stock Theatre Company:
• Borderline by Hanif Kureishi.– Joint Stock Theatre Company and
• Tartuffe

• http://feastcreative.com, Feast Creative |. “Tartuffe (1990) | Projects | Tara Arts”. tara-arts.com. Retrieved 2016-07-23. 

Career

Since 1990, he has worked with Tara Arts, performing in such plays as Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Tartuffe, Oedipus the King, Troilus and Cressida, and Antigone. He has also performed in many radio plays for BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4 in the UK. More recently he has appeared on stage at the Tricycle Theatre in the critically praised play The Great Game.

He is probably best known for playing Ashwin Kumar, the finance-obsessed father on The Kumars at No. 42.

In March 2013 he won the Safta for Best Supporting Actor in a Feature Film for his work in Material, which won the best film award.

Television