Zaqi Ismail is a 2015 graduate of Rose Bruford College.[1]
In August 2015 he appeared in a stage production entitled This Language at the Camden Fringe and Edinburgh Fringe.[2]
Ismail has an elder sister who is deaf,[3] and is proficient in British Sign Language.[4] In October 2015 he played the character of Lunn, interpreting for deaf crew-leader Cass (Sophie Leigh Stone) in the Doctor Who series 9 two-part story "Under the Lake" / "Before the Flood". He plays Ahsan in We Are Lady Parts.