
Acting
Alex Caan
Alex Caan (born "Fayyaz Ahmed") is an actor who graduated from RADA in 1998. He appeared on several episodes of Coronation Street in 2006, and other credits include roles in EastEnders, Holby City, Rockface, Doctors, Ultimate Force, Spooks, Little Devil, The Last Enemy, Harley Street and Emmerdale. He also appeared in the films Brothers, Red Mercury and The Red Maple Leaf. On stage, he appeared in productions of The Song of Deborah, As You Like It, The Colour of Justice, Balti Kings, Unsuitable Girl, Ritual in Blood, Heroes, Beautiful Thing, Passage to India and The Fortune Club in Leicester. For radio, he was heard in the BBC Radio serials Silver Street and The Archers. A former high jumper at Iowa State University in the United States of America, he previously worked as a consultant coach for UK Athletics and in September 2009, was appointed as the national event coach for high jump in the build-up to the London 2012 Summer Olympics. He is sometimes confused with Alexander James Caan, the son of the late American actor James Caan, but they are two different people.
Acting credits
5.3Three young Muslim men, part of a terror cell, are making a bomb in a London flat, when they get a call to vacate immediately with their gear. The police have been alerted and they are under suspicion.
Red Mercury
2005
6.8A Danish officer, Michael, is sent away to the International Security Assistance Force operation in Afghanistan for three months. His first mission there is to find a young radar technician who had been separated from his squad some days earlier. While on the search, his helicopter is shot down and he is taken as a prisoner of war, but is reported dead to the family.
Brothers
2004
4.3A detective, who is deeply grieving over the tragic loss of his wife and daughter, becomes determined to find the kidnapped daughter of the U.S. Ambassador, no matter what the cost.
The Red Maple Leaf
2017
6.3Whistle depicts the dreary off-hours of an ultra-technological hit-man who becomes 'involved' in the life of one of his victims. The hit-man's wife is not only fully cognizant of her husband's day job but she is also the cold-blooded contact with his bosses when the conscience crisis sets in!
Whistle
2002
Over the course of a long, booze-filled Halloween in Los Angeles, four romantic relationships unexpectedly affect the fate of the others. A dark romantic comedy, shot in beautiful black & white on a budget of just under $2,000, I'm Trying To Impress You takes a raw, cool and sometimes fantastical look at young romance in the 21st century.
I'm Trying to Impress You
2016