Abubakar Salim was born on 7 January 1993 and is an Kenyan-British actor and video game developer.
15 Facts About Abubakar Salim
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Abubakar Salim is the founder and CEO of the film and video game company Surgent Studios.
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Abubakar Salim's father was a software engineer for Xerox, and his mother a carer.
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Abubakar Salim began his acting career at age 16 when he joined the National Youth Theatre after his first audition.
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Abubakar Salim subsequently received a scholarship to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, graduating in 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts in Acting.
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Abubakar Salim made his professional stage debut as Osric in Prince of Denmark at the National Theatre in 2010.
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Abubakar Salim returned to the stage in 2015 with roles in Sense of an Ending at Theatre503 and Teddy Ferrara at the Donmar Warehouse.
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In 2017, Abubakar Salim voiced Bayek in the video game Assassin's Creed Origins, for which he earned a British Academy Games Award nomination.
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In 2018, Abubakar Salim landed his first major television role when he joined the cast of the Sky One historical drama Jamestown for its second series as Pedro.
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Abubakar Salim appeared in the BBC One drama Informer and the third series of Fortitude on Sky Atlantic.
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From 2020 to 2022, Abubakar Salim starred as Father in the HBO Max science fiction series Raised by Wolves.
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In 2020, Abubakar Salim started his own video game development studio called Silver Rain Games, as the founder and CEO.
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The game was nominated for both the Debut Games and Game Beyond Entertainment categories at the 2024 BAFTA Games Awards, and Abubakar Salim accepted the latter in April 2025.
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In 2023, it was announced that Abubakar Salim had been cast as Alyn of Hull in the second season of House of the Dragon.
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Abubakar Salim was confirmed to be returning in the third season of the show.