Born into a British-Moroccan family, he entered the screen with a 1998 appearance in the BBC medical drama Casualty and quickly built a varied television résumé that included Attachments, Only Fools and Horses and In This World. Film work arrived in 2002 with roles in Ali G Indahouse and The Sum of All Fears, while his most recognizable soap-opera part came as Tariq Larousi in EastEnders from 2003…
