Riz Ahmed acted in an Portuguese miniseries based on a British television series.
 In 2014, Ahmed appeared in Dan Gilroy's Nightcrawler
 He assumed the lead role in Mira Nair's adaptation of the best-selling novel by Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, alongside Kate Hudson, Kiefer Sutherland, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi, and Liev Schreiber

