Ismail originally hails from Bombay, India where he began his acting career at a fairly young age, taking an active part in every school production from Shakespeare to Moliere. He began performing on stage professionally in Musical Theatre in productions such as Grease; They Are Playing our Song and Best of Broadway. He has trained extensively in jazz ballet under the guidance of Karla Singh and Shiamak Davar. He then moved to New York and began his acting career in the Big Apple. He trained at the Lee Strasberg theater Institute in New York for 3 years. During that time he was working on the local south Asian cable channels such as ITV and ATN as a TV host introducing Music videos and Bollywood tidbits. He then began the auditioning circuit around that time and landed some guest roles in independent features such as the Tic Code (starring Gregory Hines). He also began acting on the popular Zee TV drama Mausam that was filmed in New York and Bombay. He was recently seen in the independent feature film Wings of Hope for which he won Best Actor at the Cinevue International film festival.
2023
as Additional Voices (voice)
2022
as Flight Passenger (voice)
2022
as Zafar
2021
as Altaf
2015
as Rishi Singh
2014
as Ahmet Avci
2014
as Olivier
2013
as Pak-Punjab Deli Customer
2012
as Quadir Durrani
2012
as Ram
2012
as President Razani
2011
2009
as Behram Omar
2006
as Various (voice)
2004
as Arjen Bhasen
2004
as Ashol
2003
as Nabi
2002
as Indian Sports Announcer
2001
as Yossi Almaliakh
2001
as Patel
2001
as The Warrior (voice)
1999
as Taxi Driver
1999
as Dr. Dhar
1999
as Dr. Mehta
1990
as Harish Singh