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November 19, 2025 55 mins

We are BACK!

Season 7! 

Welcoming to The Chai Room for our first episode is the legendary actor Nabil Elouahabi. 

Nabil’s television credits span an impressive range of critically acclaimed series, including Quarter Life, FBI: International, the BAFTA-winning Blue Lights, Unforgotten, Breeders, The Tower, Time, Our Girl, His Dark Materials, Deep State, The Missing, The Night Of, 24: Live Another Day, Top Boy, and the Emmy-nominated HBO miniseries Generation Kill alongside Alexander Skarsgård.

One of his most iconic early roles came in the Only Fools and Horses Christmas Day special Strangers on the Shore, where he played Rashid “Gary” Mahmoon - a fan-favourite appearance.

Nabil began his screen career working with acclaimed British director Michael Winterbottom (In This World, Code 46), and has since featured in a wide range of celebrated international films including Desert Warrior, Fuze, Heavyweight, The Way of the Wind, Fatum, The Outrun, Hoard, Infinite, Sand Castle, Hyena Road, Reign of the General, Zero Dark Thirty(opposite Jessica Chastain and Jason Clarke), Tower Block, Junkhearts, Blitz, Journey to Mecca, Charlie Wilson’s War(with Tom Hanks), Ali G Indahouse, Deserter, and The Sum of All Fears.

On stage, his theatre work includes Noura at Playwrights Horizons (New York), Oslo and Another World at the National Theatre, Fireworks at the Royal Court, Oil at the Almeida, I Call My Brothers and The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes at the Arcola, and Love Your Soldiers in Sheffield.

 

Topics breakdown: 

  • Spiritualisim and work on self belief- in an industry where you have to be so Malleable and almost be in the peaks and valleys. How do you maintain the love and belief in your craft as an actor and a storyteller? 
  • Can you have a viable career as an actor, financially and creatively?
  • Brand building in today's digital society from an acting and producing perspective.

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