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Born in 1951, he studied drama at the University of Cape Town.
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Vincent Ebrahim
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He is the brother of South African actress Vinette Ebrahim, who is best known for playing the role of Charmaine Beukes in the Afrikaans soap opera Sewende Laan. After immigrating to Britain in 1976, he spent a decade with community theatre companies performing in plays such as
Away From lieutenant – Common Stock Theatre Company:
Borderline by Hanif Kureishi.– Joint Stock Theatre Company
Since 1990, he has worked with Tara Arts, performing in such plays as Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Tartuffe, Oedipus the King, Troilus and Cressida, and Antigone. He has also performed in many radio plays for British Broadcasting Corporation World Service and British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 in the United Kingdom. More recently he has appeared on stage at the Tricycle Theatre in the critically praised play The Great Game.
Foreign television he has appeared in
Meet the Magoons – Channel 4.
After You"ve Gone – British Broadcasting Corporation One
Bedtime (television series) - British Broadcasting Corporation One
Compulsion - Independent Television
Ideal - British Broadcasting Corporation Three
The Old Guys - British Broadcasting Corporation One
He is probably best known for playing Ashwin Kumar, the finance-obsessed father on The Kumars at Number. Ebrahim joined the cast of British soap opera Hollyoaks for a short time in 2014 as Big Bob.
