Acting
Hiftu Quasem
Place of birth
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
Known for
Acting
Credits
14 titles
Hiftu Quasem is a Scottish actress best known for her roles in BBC’s award-winning series Killing Eve, detective drama series Endeavour (ITV), BBC Two’s mini-series Trigonometry, The Nest (BBC), and Traces (BBC). She began her career acting in a range of short films such as Tehzeeb and Meet Me By The Water. Hiftu will also be appearing in the upcoming TV comedy-drama Call My Agent! UK (Amazon) and recently featured in This Is Going To Hurt (BBC). Hiftu can also speak Bengali, Hindi, and Urdu to a high standard.
Known for
7.9Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster-hunter for hire, journeys toward his destiny in a turbulent world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.
The Witcher
2019
7.9A security consultant hunts for a ruthless assassin. Equally obsessed with each other, they go head to head in an epic game of cat-and-mouse.
Killing Eve
2018
6.8When the British prime minister's husband is kidnapped and the French president starts receiving threats, both leaders must face an impossible choice.
Hostage
2025
6.5More than a thousand years before the world of The Witcher, seven outcasts in the elven world unite in a blood quest against an unstoppable power.
The Witcher: Blood Origin
2022
7.2Dr Jim Swire tragically loses his daughter when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over a small town on 21 December 1988. Travelling across continents and political divides, Swire embarks on a relentless journey that not only jeopardises his stability, family and life, but completely overturns his trust in the justice system. As the truth shifts under his feet, Swire's view of the world is left forever sullied.
Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
2025
4.2Lance Corporal Davis Lindo arrives in Aberdeen Scotland as a new detective trainee. Having completed his final tour with the Royal Military Police, Lindo dreams of being a detective at New Scotland Yard. However, he finds himself being sent to train as a Detective Constable in the North East of Scotland, he must quickly adapt to his new life in Aberdeen, a world away from anything the soldier has known before.
Granite Harbour
2022
Film credits
2020s · 4 titles
6.4Max is a 25-year-old freelance writer and aspiring novelist who seems well on his way to success in London’s cultural spheres. Yet by night, he finds a different kind of exhilaration as a sex worker with the pseudonym Sebastian, meeting men via an escorting platform. Max uses his experiences as Sebastian to fuel his stories and the worthy debut novel that he has been longing to write, finally seems within reach.
Sebastian
2024
5.6After lesbian couple Meg and Kayla split following a traumatic homophobic incident, their three friends are intent on mending the rift during the wedding of Lizzie at a paradise resort. But a pre-wedding boat excursion turns to disaster and the wedding breakfast is likely to be the five girls!
Something in the Water
2024
4.8Libby makes her living selling spells, fortunes and hexes to small-time criminals and drug runners, but her lifestyle is disrupted when a figure from her past reappears.
Gutterwitch
2020
1.0Somewhere in Scotland, miles from anywhere, Bobby’s Caravan Park is struggling, in fact it’s crumbling. Janie is the only employee and she’s been stuck out here for longer than she cares to admit- and she’s drinking more than she’s willing to admit, yet frankly who cares anymore? Ed can’t pass the Tesco quiz, he can’t go out in the rain without his cag in a bag, he can’t drive and he can’t help who he’s related to. But at least he’s got a new job... at Bobby’s Caravan park. Hopes, dreams, and families collide in this searing, tender yet funny play that asks what it means to process our past and the traumas that lie within.
Miles
2022
Series credits
7.9Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster-hunter for hire, journeys toward his destiny in a turbulent world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.
The Witcher
2019
7.9A security consultant hunts for a ruthless assassin. Equally obsessed with each other, they go head to head in an epic game of cat-and-mouse.
Killing Eve
2018
6.8When the British prime minister's husband is kidnapped and the French president starts receiving threats, both leaders must face an impossible choice.
Hostage
2025
6.5More than a thousand years before the world of The Witcher, seven outcasts in the elven world unite in a blood quest against an unstoppable power.
The Witcher: Blood Origin
2022
7.2Dr Jim Swire tragically loses his daughter when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over a small town on 21 December 1988. Travelling across continents and political divides, Swire embarks on a relentless journey that not only jeopardises his stability, family and life, but completely overturns his trust in the justice system. As the truth shifts under his feet, Swire's view of the world is left forever sullied.
Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
2025
4.2Lance Corporal Davis Lindo arrives in Aberdeen Scotland as a new detective trainee. Having completed his final tour with the Royal Military Police, Lindo dreams of being a detective at New Scotland Yard. However, he finds himself being sent to train as a Detective Constable in the North East of Scotland, he must quickly adapt to his new life in Aberdeen, a world away from anything the soldier has known before.
Granite Harbour
2022
7.6The unvarnished truth of life as a doctor working in obstetrics and gynaecology.
This Is Going to Hurt
2022
5.6A London talent agency’s employees must scramble to keep their star clients happy and their business afloat after the sudden death of their founder.
Ten Percent
2022