Zaib Shaikh (born May 25, 1974) is a Canadian actor, writer, and director. He also served as Canada's Consul General in Los Angeles.
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Career
Shaikh has appeared in Metropia and Little Mosque on the Prairie, and as Vancouver city councillor Shakil Khan in Da Vinci's City Hall. He is co-founder of the Whistler Theatre Project, and also writer and director of the CBC adaptation of Othello. He appeared as Nadir Khan in Deepa Mehta's film adaptation of Midnight's Children. He guest starred as Professor Mahmoud Bahmanyaron in an episode of Murdoch Mysteries which aired March 18, 2013.
Personal life
Shaikh was born in Toronto, Ontario, and is of Pakistani descent. He studied theatre at the Mississauga campus of the University of Toronto and has a Bachelor of Arts from Sheridan College. While at U of T, Shaikh was a copy editor for the Mississauga campus newspaper, The Medium. He has a Master of Fine Arts degree from U of T.
Since 2011, Shaikh has been married to Kirstine Stewart, former managing director of Twitter Canada.
On May 29, 2014, Shaikh was named the film commissioner and director of entertainment industries for the City of Toronto.