Art Malik
Since winning the EMMA Award (TV Actor, his first-ever award)
Art Malik is a British-Pakistani Actor who starred in Tom Fontana’s historical television series Borgia from 2011 to 2014.
Art also appeared in the 2013 Hindi-language film Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, his first appearance in an Indian-produced film.
In 2014, he played Bunran “Bunny” Latif, a retired Pakistani general, in season 4 of the TV show Homeland, a role he later returned to during the show’s 8th season in 2020.
Art has continued to appear in many mainstream films and TV shows, including 2010’s Sherlock, 2015’s Indian Summers, 2016’s The Infiltrator, the 2023 live-action remake of The Little Mermaid, and 2024’s The Infiltrator, amongst others.
Art also appeared in the DEC Pakistan Floods Appeal advertisement in 2010.
Background (Before 2004)
Born in Bahawalpur, Pakistan, as Athar ul-Haque Malik, to Pakistani parents, Art Malik’s father worked as an ophthalmic surgeon in Moorfields Eye Hospital.
After studying acting at the Questors Theatre, Art won a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Around the same time, he began working with the Old Vic and Royal Shakespeare theatres.
In 1982, Art was cast as Hari Kumar in the Granada Television production of The Jewel in the Crown, based on Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet.
In 1987, he played Kamran Shah in the James Bond film The Living Daylights. In the movie, he allies with James Bond (hero) and leads a raid against Soviet invaders.
Art then starred in the 1992 film City of Joy and narrated Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories on the BBC television show Jackanory in 1993.
In 1994, Art portrayed his first big screen villain, Salim Abu Aziz, opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in True Lies. Art described the role as “a hoot” and accepted it when he was 14 months without work.
Afterwards, he received a role in the 1995 film Clockwork Mice and, that same year, took on the lead role in the West End production of Tom Stoppard’s play Indian Ink.
In 1999, he played the supporting role of Olympos, the court doctor to Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, in the ABC miniseries Cleopatra.
In 2001, he narrated the television documentary Hajj: The Journey of a Lifetime, which was broadcast on BBC Two. In 2002, he narrated the three-part miniseries The British Empire in Colour for TWI/Carlton Television.
Art has also done some fundraising for relief work for victims of the Gujarat earthquake of 2001.
