Qasim Akhtar(I)
- Actor
Qasim was born on June 8 1991. He went to school in Didsbury in his
native Manchester and later attended the Cheadle and Marple Sixth Form
College. Whilst still at college he landed his first film role in
'Mischief Night',alongside Kelli Hollis,who would later play his mother
in his best known television role, that of Muslim shop-keeper Chesney
Karib in Channel 4's 'Shameless'.