page_title: Shazad Latif
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Shazad Latif / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Press conference of Profile by Timur Bekmambetov at Berlinale 2018. Shazad Latif, Timur Bekmambetov, Valene Kane.
context_page_description: Shazad Latif is a British actor, who starred as Tariq Masood in the BBC TV series Spooks, Clem Fandango on Toast of London, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on Penny Dreadful. He was most recently cast as Chief of Security Ash Tyler in the CBS All Access television series Star Trek: Discovery.
context_section_description: Spooks was his first major role on television, as the highly skilled technician and data analyst Tariq Masood. He appeared in all three series of Toast of London as the recurring character Clem Fandango, one of the studio staff recording the voiceover artist Steven Toast (Matt Berry).
  In 2016 he joined the cast of Penny Dreadful as the literary character Dr. Jekyll.
  In 2017, Latif was cast as the role of Lieutenant Ash Tyler in Star Trek: Discovery, after initially being announced as playing a Klingon. It was later revealed that Latif had also portrayed the Klingon Voq in the series, credited under his late father's name to conceal a related plot twist.
  Shazad Latif played ISIS fighter Bilel in the 2018 thriller film Profile by Timur Bekmambetov. The film takes place entirely on computer screens. It premiered at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Panorama Audience Award.
caption: Shazad Latif, Timur Bekmambetov, Valene Kane at the press conference of Profile at Berlinale 2018
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