Mawaan Rizwan
Mawaan Rizwan is a British stage, film and television actor, comedian and writer.
Works
Vera
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.
Release Date2011-05-01
Charactersd Jamil
Episode Count1
Vote Count163
Ashens and the Quest for the Gamechild
Ashens goes on a quest to find the legendary and elusive piece of electronic tech known only as the GameChild.
Release Date2013-08-08
Charactersd Iqbal / Mother Iqbal
Vote Count37
Next of Kin
Whip-smart general practitioner Dr. Mona Harcourt lives in London with her political lobbyist husband Guy and her family. When a bomb goes off in London on the same day that her brother, Dr. Kareem Shirani, is abducted in Pakistan, Mona's charmed life is shaken to its core.
Release Date2018-01-08
Charactersd Omar Shirani
Episode Count6
Vote Count16
Juice
Jamma desperately wants to be the centre of attention, but his family are constantly stealing his thunder. His hyperactive imagination goes into overdrive and the world transforms around him in this surreal comedy.
Release Date2023-09-18
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd Jamma
Episode Count12
Vote Count9
Benjamin
Benjamin, a rising star filmmaker, is on the brink of premiering his difficult second film No Self at the London Film Festival when Billie, his hard drinking publicist, introduces him to a mesmeric French musician called Noah.
Release Date2019-03-15
Charactersd Dhani
Vote Count80
Two Weeks to Live
When strange young misfit Kim Noakes was just a little girl, her father died in murky circumstances and her mother Tina whisked her away to a remote rural life of seclusion and bizarre survival techniques. Now all grown up, Kim sets out into the real world for the first time to begin a secret mission of honouring her father’s memory.
Release Date2020-09-02
Charactersd Nicky Malik
Episode Count6
Vote Count217
Carnage: Swallowing the Past
It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.
Release Date2017-03-19
Charactersd Freddy Javashankar
Vote Count45
Doctor Who Children in Need Special 2023
The Doctor hurtles through space and time to a crucial point in the Daleks’ history.
Release Date2023-11-17
Charactersd Mr Castavillian
Vote Count11
five by five
In London, a city of millions, teenager Ash is lost. He wants to be the big man, but reality doesn’t quite deliver. A chance encounter leads him to make a dangerous decision, starting a chain reaction that plays out across these five connected short films.
Release Date2017-03-27
Charactersd Alex
Episode Count5
The Darkest Dawn
Evacuated from their home, two teenage sisters unite with fellow survivors and escape London by river to embark on an odyssey across the badlands of Britain.
Release Date2016-10-31
Charactersd Ricky
Vote Count93
How Gay Is Pakistan?
A documentary which explores the lives of gay people and the challenges they face in Pakistan, a country whose laws explicitly outlaw homosexuality.
Release Date2015-10-20
Charactersd himself
Vote Count9
The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland
It’s St Nick’s turn for an adventure down the rabbit hole. There he meets the Mad Hatter, recast as a high-fashion, reindeer-loving tea party host; the White Rabbit, an endearingly scatty and forgetful character; the Queen of Hearts, a Scrooge-esque tinsel-hater, her antagonistic sidekick, the Cheshire Cat and Alice herself, whose kindness helps St. Nick save Christmas.
Release Date2024-11-15
Charactersd Mad Hatter (voice)
Vote Count7
Fan Girl
A group of super fans break into the house of a faded 90s pop star.
Release Date2016-08-01
Charactersd HJ Off Limits
Murdered by My Father
Every parent wants the best for their kids, and Shahzad is no exception. Ever since his wife died, he's been trying to keep his two kids Salma and Hassan on track. Salma is growing up quickly, and Shahzad wants to make sure she's set up with the right guy to settle down with It's a promise he made his wife, and part of what he considers his duty as a dad. But what does Salma want? Unbeknown to Shahzad, she's caught up in a whirlwind romance with charismatic charmer Imi. Salma knows Imi is not what her dad is expecting, but can she find a way to make everyone happy? A hard-hitting drama with a devastating finale, Murdered by My Father is a story about the power and the limits of love in communities where 'honour' means everything.
Release Date2016-03-29
Charactersd Imi
Vote Count9
Blackout
In a shoebox flat on the seventeenth floor of a tower block, Reuben prepares a birthday party for his partner Harry. However, when Reuben starts hearing violent noises from the couple living next door, his morbid curiosity takes over. Harry deeply loves his boyfriend Reuben, but after being humiliated by a failed birthday party, many drinks consumed, shows us that none of us truly knows what we are capable of. For Reuben he comes to realise that violence isn’t always on the outside, sometimes it’s with us all along.
Release Date2025-03-23
Charactersd Reuben
The Graham Norton Show
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.
Release Date2007-02-22
Charactersd Self
Episode Count2
Vote Count272
Taskmaster
Greg Davies is the Taskmaster, and with the help of his ever-loyal assistant Alex Horne, they will set out to test the wiles, wit, wisdom and skills of five hyper-competitive comedians. Who will be crowned the Taskmaster champion in this brand new game show?
Release Date2015-07-28
Charactersd Self
Episode Count10
Vote Count173
Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
British comedian Richard Ayoade (later taken over by Joe Lycett), accompanied by a celebrity guest, takes a ruthlessly efficient approach to travel, covering everything top tourist destinations have to offer in just 48 hours.
Release Date2015-03-30
Charactersd Self - Guest
Episode Count1
Vote Count37
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Four different celebrities all aim to impress judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith with their baking skills.
Release Date2018-03-06
Charactersd Self - Guest
Episode Count1
Vote Count8
The Dog Ate My Homework
Two teams fight it out to dodge detention, and put the cool back into school, in a mischievous mix of tongue-in-cheek comedy, off-the-wall questions, nonsensical studio games and slapstick challenges.
Release Date2014-01-17
Charactersd Self
Episode Count3
Joe Lycett's Big Pride Party
Joe Lycett, Mawaan Rizwan and Rosie Jones are in Birmingham to celebrate 50 years of Pride with a party full of mischief and mayhem! With Boy George, Dame Kelly Holmes, Danny Dyer and many more.
Release Date2022-07-03
Charactersd Self - Co-Host
Jonathan Ross' Comedy Club
Jonathan Ross' Comedy Club showcases the very best new talents performing in a recreation of the vibe and atmosphere of a small comedy venue, all filmed within Covid guidelines. Each episode sees a new faces perform their short but memorable set alongside more established names who will get the opportunity to try out new material.
Release Date2020-09-12
Charactersd Self
Episode Count5
Sex Education
Inexperienced Otis channels his sex therapist mom when he teams up with rebellious Maeve to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at school.
Release Date2019-01-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count7623
Tinsel Town
Egotistical A-lister Bradley Mack is blindsided when his iconic action franchise is abruptly canceled. His career in freefall and worried his Hollywood days are behind him, Bradley heads to England, hoping to rebuild his image as a serious West End actor. But his long-suffering agent has other plans, sending him instead to a small, snow-dusted village to star in the eccentric town’s production of Cinderella. As he fumbles through rehearsals with a colourful cast of oddball locals, Bradley begins to discover a spark of new beginnings in the form of no-nonsense choreographer Jill.
Release Date2025-11-28
The Seven Dials Mystery
England. 1925. At a lavish country house party, a practical joke appears to have gone horribly, murderously wrong. It will be up to the unlikeliest of sleuths - the fizzingly inquisitive Lady Eileen ‘Bundle’ Brent - to unravel a chilling plot that will change her life, cracking wide open the country house mystery.
Episode Count1