Ayub Khan-Din

Ayub Khan-Din (1961-) is a British playwright and actor, who was born in Salford, Lancashire, England. His father is British Pakistani and his mother is white British. As an actor, Khan-Din is best-known for the role of Sammy in Hanif Kureishi's Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987). He is also an award-winning playwright, best known for East is East which was also released as a film in 1999, starring Om Puri. In the early 1990s, he starred in Idiot. H... more

Ayub Khan-Din (1961-) is a British playwright and actor, who was born in Salford, Lancashire, England. His father is British Pakistani and his mother is white British. As an actor, Khan-Din is best-known for the role of Sammy in Hanif Kureishi's Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987). He is also an award-winning playwright, best known for East is East which was also released as a film in 1999, starring Om Puri. In the early 1990s, he starred in Idiot. His latest work, the play Rafta, Rafta..., is a comic adaptation of All in Good Time, in which the story of a northern working class family in the 1960s is transposed to a contemporary Asian family. less