Jeffrey Mirza was born on 3 February 1964 and is a British stand-up comedian and actor.
17 Facts About Jeff Mirza
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Mirza was born as Jeffrey Mirza and brought up in East End of London, England on 3 February 1964 to Pakistani parents.
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Jeff Mirza's family are from the Punjab region of Pakistan and are of Mughal descent.
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Jeff Mirza's paternal grandfather was a Zaildar in the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir before the Partition.
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Jeff Mirza's family came from Pakistan and settled in the UK in the early 1950s.
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At the age of 14, Mirza had his first stint at live comedy when he told anecdotes about his summer holiday trip to Pakistan for assembly at Loxford High School.
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In 1993, Jeff Mirza won the Hackney Empire East West Quest and he went solo into stand-up and since then has not looked back.
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Jeff Mirza has written pieces for magazines and is well known on the London comedy circuit.
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Jeff Mirza has played the comedy circuit in London including Jongleurs and The Comedy Store.
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Jeff Mirza has performed all over the world, and is the first British Muslim comedian ever to perform stand-up comedy to sell out shows in Saudi Arabia.
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Jeff Mirza is regularly involved with interfaith dialogue between different communities and often called in to lighten-up and moderate contentious debates between multi-faith conservatives.
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In July 2011, Jeff Mirza toured four UK cities in the Peace Youth and Community Trust's first Muslim Comedy Tour, alongside Humza Arshad, Prince Abdi and Nabil Abdul Rashid.
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Jeff Mirza has appeared at the Leicester Comedy Festival and Glastonbury Festival.
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Jeff Mirza is developing a television sitcom and writing new material for a world tour.
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Jeff Mirza's film credits include "What's Love Got to do with it", Blinded by the Light, Mogul Mowgli, It Was an Accident and Desi Boyz.
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In 2001, Jeff Mirza won the "Best Comedian" award in the BT Ethnic Multicultural Media Academy Awards.
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In 2018 Jeff Mirza was Awarded a BEFFTA Legends Award.