Nick Mohammed has portrayed his character Mr Swallow across both stage and television for over a decade.
20 Facts About Nick Mohammed
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Nick Mohammed is the creator of the Sky One comedy series Intelligence.
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Nick Mohammed portrayed the character of Nathan Shelley in the Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso, for which he was nominated in the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series category at the 73rd and 74th Primetime Emmy Awards.
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Nick Mohammed was born on 4 October 1980 in Leeds, West Yorkshire.
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Nick Mohammed's mother was a Cyprus-born general practitioner and his Trinidad-born father worked in law.
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Nick Mohammed reportedly turned down an offer to study at the University of Cambridge and instead chose Durham University, where he was a member of St Aidan's College and played violin in the university orchestra.
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Nick Mohammed had auditioned for the Durham Revue twice but failed to get in and instead frequented the local comedy circuit.
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Nick Mohammed has featured in the second series of BBC One's Reggie Perrin and was a co-presenter in BBC Three comedy series The King Is Dead alongside Simon Bird and Katy Wix.
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Nick Mohammed was a cast member of BAFTA-nominated CBBC sketch show Sorry, I've Got No Head and supported Angelos Epithemiou on his 2010 national tour.
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Nick Mohammed has had a supporting role in all three seasons of C4 comedy series Drifters.
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Nick Mohammed has developed The Mr Swallow Show for BBC Television and is writing and starring in an original comedy-drama Magic for Channel 4 as part of the Coming Up Scheme.
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Nick Mohammed appears in the new CBBC show Hank Zipzer as Mr Love.
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Nick Mohammed made a guest appearance in the final episode of series 1 and first episode of series 2 of Uncle.
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In 2019, Nick Mohammed appeared in the second series of Stath Lets Flats.
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From 2020 to 2023, Nick Mohammed starred as Nathan "Nate" Shelley in the Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso which ran for three seasons on Apple TV+.
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Nick Mohammed was a contestant on the seventeenth series of the Channel 4 show Taskmaster which launched in March 2024.
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In November 2024, Nick Mohammed opened A Christmas Carol at @sohoplace in London's West End for a Christmas run until 31 December 2024.
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Nick Mohammed originally developed the show at Soho Theatre in 2022.
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Nick Mohammed learned to play the violin as a child and played it in his university orchestra, at St Aidan's College at Durham University.