The land of Pakistan is full of talented and skilled people who have proved themselves with their achievements in several fields. Like all other fields, showbiz industry of Pakistan also have showed their skills and appreciated not only domestically but internationally also.
One of the most recognized artist of Pakistan was Nusrat Ali Khan, who had composed music for some films of Hollywood including Last Temptation of Christ, Dead Man Walking and Bone Collector. However, Adnan Siddiqui, Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy and Faran Tahir have also proved themselves with their brilliant work in Hollywood.
People in Pakistan know all of the above artists very well who have debut in Hollywood but there are some other people also who have make their career in Hollywood. They are not recognized in Pakistan, but they have showed their skills outside Pakistan and the main reason behind it, is lack of opportunities in our country. Some of those artists who are doing their best to portray positive image of Pakistan, are as follows:
Ayad Akhtar
Ayad Akhtar is a popular actor and writer of US, and had received Pultizer Prize for Drama in 2013. Ayad Akhtar had worked in many popular films and short documentaries and doing his best to realize US citizens that Muslims are not terrorists.
In 2012, he had written a novel American Darvish, in which he had told the story of a young Pakistani-American boy who is struggling in US for his identity.
Gabe Grey
Syed Fuad Ahmed, who is known as Gabe Grey is also a famous actor of Canada. He had appeared in several popular TV serials including The Haircut, Bomb Girls: Facing the Enemy and One Last Shot. He was born in Karachi, Pakistan and reached Canada to make his career.
Gabe Grey had also appeared in Canadian crime thriller film “Beeba Boys”, released in September, 2015.
Iqbal Theba
Iqbal Theba is also a popular Pakistani-American actor who is popularly known for his acting in Fox series Glee, as Principal Figgins. He was born in 1963 in Karachi and moved to America to make his career as an actor.
During his around 20 years of acting career, Iqbal Theba had appeared in many TV series and proved himself as talented Pakistani.
Kamran Pasha
Kamran Pasha is famous Hollywood screenwriter, novelist and director. Kamran Pasha was also born in Karachi and moved to United States for making his career. He is widely known for NBC series King, written and produced by him.
While his other notable work includes Disney’s Tron: Uprising and Sleeper Cell, Bionic Women and The CW’s Nikita. He had also nominated for Golden Globe and Emmy Awards in 2015-16, in the category of Best Miniseries.
Mir Zafar Ali
Mir Zafar Ali is a popular Pakistani movie visual effects specialist and artist who was born in Karachi. He had worked in many Hollywood movies including Frozen, Spiderman 3, XMen: First Class, Life of Pi, The Incredible Hulk and many others. Mir Zafar Ali has honour to win the Academy Award for best visual effects in Frozen movie and made Pakistanis proud.
Novaira Masood
Novaira Masood is a talented Pakistani software engineer who is representing Pakistan in Hollywood film industry. Navaira Masood was actually behind the Hollywood queen Angelina Jolie’s villain character in the movie Malficient.
Her other notable work for the Hollywood films includes Christmas Carol, Transformers 3 Mars needs Moms, Thor and Jack the Giant Slayer.
Sadia Shephard
She is famous Pakistani American author and filmmaker whose written work has published in popular newspapers including The Washington Post, The New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors and Lost Loves are some of the popular writings of Sadia Shepard.
Sameer Asad Gardezi
Sameer Asad Grdezi is a popular television and screen writer of America. His popular written work includes Aliens in America, Mr. Sunshine, Outsourced, Save Us, The Whales and Modern Family. His brilliant work of in Modern Family had been widely appreciated and win Emmy Award.
Syma Chowdhry
She is multitalented star of American television industry who has worked as a television host, journalist, producer, model, actress and news writer. Syma Chodhry was 1st runner up in the Miss Pennsylvania USA pageant and also participated in several beauty pageants.
Umar Khan
Umar Khan is also a famous American actor who was born in Lahore, Pakistan. He is known for his acting in the films like Deliver Us from Evil, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay and Captain America: Civil War.