Allan Mustafa

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Allan Mustafa
Born
Allan Kamal Arif Mustafa

(1985-09-29) 29 September 1985 (age 38)
London, England
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Actor, comedian, writer
Years active2012–present

Allan Kamal Arif Mustafa [1] (born 29 September 1985), also known by his nickname Seapa, is a British actor, comedian and writer who is best known for portraying Anthony "MC Grindah" Zografoff in the BBC mockumentary series People Just Do Nothing , which he co-created and co-wrote with Steve Stamp, Hugo Chegwin and Asim Chaudhry. [2] [3]

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Early and personal life

Allan Kamal Arif Mustafa was born on 29 September 1985 to immigrant parents; his mother is from the Czech Republic and his father was Kurdish-Iraqi. His parents fled Baghdad, due to Saddam Hussein’s regime, in the early 1980s. [4] [5] [6] He has an older sister. [7] His father died in 2012. [8]

Mustafa grew up in Chessington, Kingston upon Thames. [9] As a teenager he had jobs at Chessington World of Adventures and as a cleaner at a carpet shop. [10] He has said that he was arrested around 6 times as a teenager, mainly for graffiti, the first time being when he was around 14 years old. [11] [12]

Growing up Mustafa had a passion for music, he used to rap and MC and was involved in pirate radio. [13] He did a music production course at Thames Valley College, which he ended up dropping out of. [14] [15] He later worked in a call centre with Hugo Chegwin, Asim Chaudhry, and Daniel Sylvester Woolford. With whom, along with their friend Steve Stamp, he would go on to create the show People Just Do Nothing . [16] [17]

Career

Mustafa met Hugo Chegwin, through a mutual friend, after which Chegwin introduced Mustafa to Steve Stamp and Asim Chaudhry, with whom he created YouTube mockumentary videos about a fictional pirate radio station. This led to the group being commissioned for People Just Do Nothing, a BBC mockumentary about West London pirate radio station Kurupt FM. The pilot aired on BBC iPlayer in July 2012. The show ran for five series, winning a BAFTA and a Royal Television Society Award. In 2019, production began on a feature length adaptation of the series called People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan . The film was positively received by both fans and critics. [18]

Mustafa appeared in the 2020 Netflix film Love Wedding Repeat as Chaz, the boyfriend of Freida Pinto’s character Amanda. [19] [20]

Mustafa starred for two series of the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Ability as the "useless carer" Bob, for the character played by comedian Lee Ridley, who also wrote the series. [21]

In 2022, he starred in the Channel 4 series The Curse, [22] and the BBC Three series Peacock. [23]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2012BBC Comedy FeedsSniperEpisode: "People Just Do Nothing"
2014–2018 People Just Do Nothing Grindah27 episodes' also co-writer and co-creator
2017 Sounds Like Friday Night Series 1 episode 1
2018Love PoolTaxi Pool DriverShort film
Kurupt FM vs Top GearGrindah
2019Amaro and Walden ShottingShort film; also writer
2020 Love Wedding Repeat Chaz
2021 People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan MC GrindahAlso co-writer
2022 The Witchfinder GrocerSeries 1 episode 5
The CurseAlbert6 episodes; also co-writer
Kurupt FM the Greatest HitsMC GrindahOnline video
2022– Peacock Andy PeacockSeries lead (9 episodes)
2023 Jackdaw Feature film [24]
TBAThe OutLiamShort film

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