Atta Yaqub
Acting
Biography
Atta Yaqub was born in 1979 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He is an actor, known for Ae Fond Kiss (2004), T2 Trainspotting (2017) and Baar Baar Dekho (2016).
Born: March 1, 1979
Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Known For
Fernes Land
The pakistani hairdresser, Haroon, has immigrated illegally to Germany, the German in- surance broker, Mark, dreams of emigrating. The consequences of a car accident throw these two entirely different people together for one night. At the end of an odyssey through the alien world of illegality, they both discover that something bonds them: a desire to be far away...
Good Morning Karachi
Good Morning, Karachi is the story of a young girl (Amna Ilyas) who wants to be a model while struggling towards her dream against the backdrop of the Benazir Bhutto assassination.
T2 Trainspotting
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.
Wild Rose
A young Scottish singer, Rose-Lynn Harlan, dreams of making it as a country artist in Nashville after being released from prison.
Nina's Heavenly Delights
A feisty young woman returns to Glasgow to run her deceased father's curry house.
Ae Fond Kiss...
A young man upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher.
Perfect Day
Drama following the tensions and romantic crises among a group of friends over the course of a single wedding day.
I've Never Been to New York
In the life of TV presenter Lisa, everything revolves around her talk show, celebrities and the ratings. There is just as little room for love as there is for her mother Maria. When the 66-year-old loses her memory after a fall in her apartment and wakes up in the hospital, she can only remember that she has never been to New York and sets off immediately. Lisa goes in search of Maria with her makeup artist Fred. She struck gold on a cruise ship that was just leaving for New York. As stowaways, the three have no choice but to earn the passage. While Fred is hired as an assistant by the Greek on-board magician Costa, Lisa and Maria have to work in room service. The crossing soon takes surprising turns for mother and daughter: Maria falls in love with the charming dancer Otto, who supposedly knows her from before, and Lisa takes a liking to the widowed statistician Axel Staudach, who is traveling with his son Florian.
It's Not Over
After Sarah’s husband Albert dies in a domestic accident, she is given the freedom to move forward with her other lover Max. Soon Max finds something disturbing in Sarah's behaviour, and he begins to question if Sarah isn't the person she says she is? Max then mysteriously disappears, and Sarah’s orderly life is brought into chaos.
The Defender
A vigilante comes face to face with her demons while tracking down criminals tied to her past.
Filmography
as Don
as Rick
as John
as Cab Driver
as Doctor
as Medical Student
as Mansur
as Jamal
as Haroon
as Atta Yaqub
as Ash
as Casim Khan
as Hakaam