Bashir Salahuddin was born on June 30,1976 and is an American actor, writer, and comedian.
13 Facts About Bashir Salahuddin
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Bashir Salahuddin's father is originally from Panama and moved to Chicago with his family when he was a child.
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Bashir Salahuddin's mother grew up on the city's West Side.
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Bashir Salahuddin grew up with three brothers and two sisters and has two younger half-siblings from his father's second marriage.
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Bashir Salahuddin's father worked as an airplane mechanic for Midway Airlines at Chicago Midway International Airport.
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Bashir Salahuddin was a pre-medical student at Harvard University, graduating in 1998.
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Bashir Salahuddin performed in several theater productions, including at the Hasty Pudding.
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Bashir Salahuddin met and became friends with Diallo Riddle, who would become his writing partner.
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In March 2016, Bashir Salahuddin was cast as the male lead in a Hulu pilot comedy, Crushed, co-starring with Regina Hall.
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Bashir Salahuddin was cast as a recurring character on the Netflix show GLOW, which premiered in 2017.
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Together with Riddle, Bashir Salahuddin created the comedy show South Side, which premiered on Comedy Central on 24 July 2019.
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In 2018, it was announced that Bashir Salahuddin was cast in Tom Cruise's 2022 action drama Top Gun: Maverick.
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In 2019, Bashir Salahuddin was cast in a leading role in The 24th, a film about the all-black Twenty-Fourth United States Infantry Regiment and the Houston Riot of 1917.