Mawaan Rizwan

Acting

Mawaan Rizwan

Born

1992-08-18 (34)

Place of birth

Lahore, Pakistan

Known for

Acting

Credits

29 titles

Mawaan Rizwan is a British stage, film and television actor, comedian and writer.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 6 titles

Tinsel Town poster
5.8

A washed-up Hollywood action hero is tricked into starring in a small English town’s chaotic Christmas pantomime, where a straight-talking dance instructor and his estranged daughter just might help him rediscover the magic of the season.

Tinsel Town

2025

A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of Stone poster
4.0

Newlywed couple Jack and Laura move to a village where a legend says marble knight effigies in the church come alive on Christmas Eve. Jack dismisses it as folklore, but on Christmas Eve, he feels drawn to the church, leaving Laura alone.

A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of Stone

2024

The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland poster
6.1

It’s St Nick’s turn for an adventure down the rabbit hole. There he meets the Mad Hatter, recast as a high-fashion, reindeer-loving tea party host; the White Rabbit, an endearingly scatty and forgetful character; the Queen of Hearts, a Scrooge-esque tinsel-hater, her antagonistic sidekick, the Cheshire Cat and Alice herself, whose kindness helps St. Nick save Christmas.

The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland

2024

Doctor Who Children in Need Special 2023 poster
7.2

The Doctor hurtles through space and time to a crucial point in the Daleks’ history.

Doctor Who Children in Need Special 2023

2023

Joe Lycett's Big Pride Party poster
NR

Joe Lycett, Mawaan Rizwan and Rosie Jones are in Birmingham to celebrate 50 years of Pride with a party full of mischief and mayhem! With Boy George, Dame Kelly Holmes, Danny Dyer and many more.

Joe Lycett's Big Pride Party

2022

Blackout poster
NR

In a shoebox flat on the seventeenth floor of a tower block, Reuben prepares a birthday party for his partner Harry. However, when Reuben starts hearing violent noises from the couple living next door, his morbid curiosity takes over. Harry deeply loves his boyfriend Reuben, but after being humiliated by a failed birthday party, many drinks consumed, shows us that none of us truly knows what we are capable of. For Reuben he comes to realise that violence isn’t always on the outside, sometimes it’s with us all along.

Blackout

2025

2010s · 7 titles

Carnage: Swallowing the Past poster
6.4

It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.

Carnage: Swallowing the Past

2017

Benjamin poster
6.1

Benjamin, a rising star filmmaker, is on the brink of premiering his difficult second film No Self at the London Film Festival when Billie, his hard drinking publicist, introduces him to a mesmeric French musician called Noah.

Benjamin

2019

Ashens and the Quest for the Gamechild poster
6.1

Ashens goes on a quest to find the legendary and elusive piece of electronic tech known only as the GameChild.

Ashens and the Quest for the Gamechild

2013

Murdered by My Father poster
5.9

Every parent wants the best for their kids, and Shahzad is no exception. Ever since his wife died, he's been trying to keep his two kids Salma and Hassan on track. Salma is growing up quickly, and Shahzad wants to make sure she's set up with the right guy to settle down with It's a promise he made his wife, and part of what he considers his duty as a dad. But what does Salma want? Unbeknown to Shahzad, she's caught up in a whirlwind romance with charismatic charmer Imi. Salma knows Imi is not what her dad is expecting, but can she find a way to make everyone happy? A hard-hitting drama with a devastating finale, Murdered by My Father is a story about the power and the limits of love in communities where 'honour' means everything.

Murdered by My Father

2016

The Darkest Dawn poster
4.3

Evacuated from their home, two teenage sisters unite with fellow survivors and escape London by river to embark on an odyssey across the badlands of Britain.

The Darkest Dawn

2016

How Gay Is Pakistan? poster
4.6

A documentary which explores the lives of gay people and the challenges they face in Pakistan, a country whose laws explicitly outlaw homosexuality.

How Gay Is Pakistan?

2015

Fan Girl poster
NR

A group of super fans break into the house of a faded 90s pop star.

Fan Girl

2016

Series credits

The Graham Norton Show poster
7.2

Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.

The Graham Norton Show

2007

Vera poster
7.4

A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.

Vera

2011

Taskmaster poster
8.3

Greg Davies is the Taskmaster, and with the help of his ever-loyal assistant Alex Horne, they will set out to test the wiles, wit, wisdom and skills of five hyper-competitive comedians. Who will be crowned the Taskmaster champion?

Taskmaster

2015

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer poster
7.0

Four different celebrities all aim to impress judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith with their baking skills.

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer

2018

Travel Man: 48 Hours in... poster
6.4

British comedian Richard Ayoade (later taken over by Joe Lycett), accompanied by a celebrity guest, takes a ruthlessly efficient approach to travel, covering everything top tourist destinations have to offer in just 48 hours.

Travel Man: 48 Hours in...

2015

A Ghost Story for Christmas poster
7.4

A strand of annual British short television adaptations of classic ghost stories, referencing the oral tradition of telling supernatural tales at Christmas. First broadcast on BBC One from 1971 to 1978, and revived in 2005 on BBC Four.

A Ghost Story for Christmas

1971

The Dog Ate My Homework poster
NR

Two teams fight it out to dodge detention, and put the cool back into school, in a mischievous mix of tongue-in-cheek comedy, off-the-wall questions, nonsensical studio games and slapstick challenges.

The Dog Ate My Homework

2014

Two Weeks to Live poster
7.3

When strange young misfit Kim Noakes was just a little girl, her father died in murky circumstances and her mother Tina whisked her away to a remote rural life of seclusion and bizarre survival techniques. Now all grown up, Kim sets out into the real world for the first time to begin a secret mission of honouring her father’s memory.

Two Weeks to Live

2020

Next of Kin poster
6.4

Whip-smart general practitioner Dr. Mona Harcourt lives in London with her political lobbyist husband Guy and her family. When a bomb goes off in London on the same day that her brother, Dr. Kareem Shirani, is abducted in Pakistan, Mona's charmed life is shaken to its core.

Next of Kin

2018

Juice poster
6.5

Jamma desperately wants to be the centre of attention, but his family are constantly stealing his thunder. His hyperactive imagination goes into overdrive and the world transforms around him in this surreal comedy.

Juice

2023

The Split Up poster
5.3

For Manchester's elite, family firm Kishan Law are the go-to divorce lawyers. But amid the messiness of love, marriage and deception, the personal and professional will collide.

The Split Up

2026

No artwork available
NR

Bold new short form drama on BBC Three, written by up-and-coming talent from across the UK.

The Break

2016

No artwork available
NR

An upside-down, back-to-front look at the latest headlines. Bob Roberts and Felicity Bond bring you the best stories from the DNN newsroom.

DNN

2013

five by five poster
NR

In London, a city of millions, teenager Ash is lost. He wants to be the big man, but reality doesn’t quite deliver. A chance encounter leads him to make a dangerous decision, starting a chain reaction that plays out across these five connected short films.

five by five

2017

Jonathan Ross' Comedy Club poster
NR

Jonathan Ross' Comedy Club showcases the very best new talents performing in a recreation of the vibe and atmosphere of a small comedy venue, all filmed within Covid guidelines. Each episode sees a new faces perform their short but memorable set alongside more established names who will get the opportunity to try out new material.

Jonathan Ross' Comedy Club

2020

No artwork available
NR

An exploration of the early days of Hercule Poirot's London career as he cements himself as the world's greatest detective.

Hercule

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