# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ayub-khan-din
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:56:41.720Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ayub-khan-din"
name: "Ayub Khan-Din"
slug: "ayub-khan-din"
description: "Ayub Khan Din is a British writer and actor. He wrote the BAFTA, BIFA and London Film Critics Circle award-winning film East Is East (1999), adapted from his 1996 Olivier-nominated play of the same name. His 2008 comedy play Rafta, Rafta... won the Olivier Award. He went on to write the film sequel West Is West (2010). On television, he created the Channel 4 comedy-drama Ackley Bridge (2017–2022)."
tagline: "British actor and playwright"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/s7OfHBko10lzqYYA7lB9GLXkc61.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1961"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.73
  momentum:             18.6245572609209
  historical:           5.974877333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0451351/"
    handle:    "nm0451351"
sources:
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    title: "ایوب خان دین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%A8_%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "أيوب خان دين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%A8_%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ايوب خان دين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%A8%E2%80%8C%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "ایوب‌خان دین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayub_Khan_Din"
    title: "Ayub Khan Din"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%A8%E2%80%8C%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "ایوب‌خان دین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4831765"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/65866"
    title: "Ayub Khan-Din"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump