Atta Yaqub

Atta Yaqub

Birth : 1979-03-01, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

History

Atta Yaqub was born in 1979 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He is an actor, known for Ae Fond Kiss (2004), T2 Trainspotting (2017) and Baar Baar Dekho (2016).

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Atta Yaqub

Movies

It's not over
Rick
The mysterious disappearance of Max disrupts the orderly world of his beloved. When Sarah returns to an empty apartment, she has no idea that tragedy is in the air. The man's worried parents join the search, claiming that the woman has something to do with the disappearance. No one knows for sure what happened, and the truth that will come out will not be the most pleasant.
I've Never Been to New York
Cab Driver
In the life of TV presenter Lisa, everything revolves around her talk show, celebrities and the ratings. There is just as little room for love as there is for her mother Maria. When the 66-year-old loses her memory after a fall in her apartment and wakes up in the hospital, she can only remember that she has never been to New York and sets off immediately. Lisa goes in search of Maria with her makeup artist Fred. She struck gold on a cruise ship that was just leaving for New York. As stowaways, the three have no choice but to earn the passage. While Fred is hired as an assistant by the Greek on-board magician Costa, Lisa and Maria have to work in room service. The crossing soon takes surprising turns for mother and daughter: Maria falls in love with the charming dancer Otto, who supposedly knows her from before, and Lisa takes a liking to the widowed statistician Axel Staudach, who is traveling with his son Florian.
Wild Rose
Doctor
A young Scottish singer, Rose-Lynn Harlan, dreams of making it as a country artist in Nashville after being released from prison.
Locked In
Mansur
Samira and Nazim, asylum seekers who fled after torture find themselves in the UK again detained by the state. They are on the fast track system, soon to be deported. With the clock ticking, the memories of their torture and what awaits on their return torment them. Will they be able to gain asylum in time? What will the cost be to their relationship?
Good Morning Karachi
Jamal
Good Morning, Karachi is the story of a young girl (Amna Ilyas) who wants to be a model while struggling towards her dream against the backdrop of the Benazir Bhutto assassination.
Fernes Land
Haroon
The pakistani hairdresser, Haroon, has immigrated illegally to Germany, the German in- surance broker, Mark, dreams of emigrating. The consequences of a car accident throw these two entirely different people together for one night. At the end of an odyssey through the alien world of illegality, they both discover that something bonds them: a desire to be far away...
Nina's Heavenly Delights
Atta Yaqub
A feisty young woman returns to Glasgow to run her deceased father's curry house.
Perfect Day
Ash
Drama following the tensions and romantic crises among a group of friends over the course of a single wedding day.
Ae Fond Kiss...
Casim Khan
A young man upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher.