Aml Ameen Biography

Fast Facts

• In 2007, he won the Best Actor in a TV Performance Screen Nation Award
• In 2006, he was named one of The Times newspaper's "Ones To Watch․"
• Annoyed with the material for his age group and demographic available in his native England, he moved to Los Angeles to broaden his acting career
• Acting since a young age, he performed at the 1996 BRIT Awards alongside Michael Jackson
• Quote: "I'm not American․ We say the same words but we don't speak the same language․ I wear my Britishness on my sleeve; it's part of my identity․"
• Quote: "It's about an international career and the world is much bigger than America and England․ I think that should be every ambitious person's goal․"
• Set up Ameen Dream Entertainment with his younger brother
• Has a particular interest in projects that represent young, black people in roles outside of the "street" stories that he feels the film industry often focuses on
• Missed authentic Caribbean food after moving to Los Angeles, and learned to make curry goat over Skype from his father
• Set up the Actor's Student Alliance drama school in 2008