Acting

Abubakar Salim

Born January 7, 1993 · Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UK (age 33)

Abubakar Salim is a British actor, producer and video-game voice actor. He has provided his voice and motion capture for video games such as Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed: Origins (2017) and has acted in television series such as Informer (2018), Jamestown (2018) and Raised by Wolves (2020).

Known For

Napoleon

Napoleon · 2023

MovieHistoryWar

An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.

Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! The Movie

Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! The Movie · 2018

Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! The Movie

MovieFamilyAnimation

Thomas leaves Sodor to fulfil his dream of seeing the world. This heroic quest takes Thomas across deserts, through jungles and over dangerous mountains as he travels across five continents seeing sights he has never seen before.

PH-1

MovieMysteryThriller

A promising politician is held hostage in his luxurious penthouse by a remote captor, forced to watch his life destroyed by social and conventional media as he tries to figure out who is behind it and why.

Essex Girls

Essex Girls · 2023

After an incident at her high school pulls her into the orbit of the only other Black girl in her year, “Essex Girl” Bisola is plunged into a journey to discover a whole new side of herself.

Sexellence

Sexellence · 2018

An indignant young woman takes to unorthodox methods to find and keep hold of the man of her dreams.

Wild Goat Surf

Wild Goat Surf · 2023

In a run-down Okanagan RV park during the summer of 2003, surfing-obsessed 12-year-old skater girl Rell “Goat” Anderson navigates the unbridled, unstructured summer days of youth, dreaming about becoming a surfer.

Thanks to the Hard Work of the Elephants

Thanks to the Hard Work of the Elephants · 2025

Thanks to the Hard Work of the Elephants

A queer love fantasy that follows two teenage boys who escape an abusive youth lockdown center while high on LSD. They steal the center’s van and drive 400 km to a big-box store parking lot, determined to start an alternative youth commune in a nearby suburban forest.

Things I Never Told My Father

Things I Never Told My Father · 2021

Things I Never Told My Father

A road trip. Father and Son. Unanswered questions and things left unsaid as they travel through a distorted reality.

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Napoleon

Napoleon · 2023

MovieHistoryWar

An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.

General Dumas

Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! The Movie

Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! The Movie · 2018

Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! The Movie

MovieFamilyAnimation

Thomas leaves Sodor to fulfil his dream of seeing the world. This heroic quest takes Thomas across deserts, through jungles and over dangerous mountains as he travels across five continents seeing sights he has never seen before.

Kwaku / African Van / Kobe / Various (voice)

PH-1

MovieMysteryThriller

A promising politician is held hostage in his luxurious penthouse by a remote captor, forced to watch his life destroyed by social and conventional media as he tries to figure out who is behind it and why.

Paul

Essex Girls

Essex Girls · 2023

After an incident at her high school pulls her into the orbit of the only other Black girl in her year, “Essex Girl” Bisola is plunged into a journey to discover a whole new side of herself.

Executive Producer

Sexellence

Sexellence · 2018

An indignant young woman takes to unorthodox methods to find and keep hold of the man of her dreams.

Associate Producer

Wild Goat Surf

Wild Goat Surf · 2023

In a run-down Okanagan RV park during the summer of 2003, surfing-obsessed 12-year-old skater girl Rell “Goat” Anderson navigates the unbridled, unstructured summer days of youth, dreaming about becoming a surfer.

Executive Producer

Thanks to the Hard Work of the Elephants

Thanks to the Hard Work of the Elephants · 2025

Thanks to the Hard Work of the Elephants

A queer love fantasy that follows two teenage boys who escape an abusive youth lockdown center while high on LSD. They steal the center’s van and drive 400 km to a big-box store parking lot, determined to start an alternative youth commune in a nearby suburban forest.

Executive Producer

Things I Never Told My Father

Things I Never Told My Father · 2021

Things I Never Told My Father

A road trip. Father and Son. Unanswered questions and things left unsaid as they travel through a distorted reality.

Executive Producer

The Bayou

The Bayou · 2013

One young man explores the deep roots of his mind in the discomfort of a gentleman's therapy suite.

Gentleman

Calm

CALM is the story of a South-Sudanese man Deng and his teenage daughter Miranda. Desperate for respect, he needs Miranda to marry her suitor Thok. CALM is an adaptation of a true story, set in present day London, uncovering what female genital mutilation means to a father.

Thok

Grasshopper

Grasshopper · 2013

MovieDramaThriller

A dark journey through the world of an obsessed office worker, consumed by hate of the new and vastly better Employee.

Supervisor

My Shoes, Your Feet

My Shoes, Your Feet · 2024

My Shoes, Your Feet

MovieDocumentary

Documentary short following the story behind Zau, the main character in the game Tales of Kenzera: Zau, from Abubakar Salim.

Director

The Whale

The Whale · 2020

Two journalists travel to a remote coast in search of a giant, ancient whale skeleton.

Executive Producer

House of the Dragon

House of the Dragon · 2022

House of the Dragon

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

The Targaryen dynasty is at the absolute apex of its power, with more than 15 dragons under their yoke. Most empires crumble from such heights. In the case of the Targaryens, their slow fall begins when King Viserys breaks with a century of tradition by naming his daughter Rhaenyra heir to the Iron Throne. But when Viserys later fathers a son, the court is shocked when Rhaenyra retains her status as his heir, and seeds of division sow friction across the realm.

Alyn of Hull

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.

Secret Service Agent #1

Black Mirror

Black Mirror · 2011

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

Twisted tales run wild in this mind-bending anthology series that reveals humanity's worst traits, greatest innovations and more.

Airport Guard

Critical Role

Critical Role · 2015

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyAction & Adventure

Critical Role is a weekly actual play series that uses tabletop role-playing game mechanics as a means to explore and develop stories from the vast fantasy worlds of Exandria, Aramán, and beyond, with sweeping narratives intricately woven through collaboration between Game Masters and players.

Coru / S.I.L.A.H.A.

The Legend of Vox Machina

The Legend of Vox Machina · 2022

The Legend of Vox Machina

SeriesAnimationSci-Fi & Fantasy

They're rowdy, they're ragtag, they're misfits turned mercenaries for hire. Vox Machina is more interested in easy money and cheap ale than actually protecting the realm. But when the kingdom is threatened by evil, this boisterous crew realizes that they are the only ones capable of restoring justice.

Zanror (voice)

Raised by Wolves

Raised by Wolves · 2020

Raised by Wolves

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

After Earth is ravaged by a great religious war, an atheistic android architect sends two of his creations, Mother and Father, to start a peaceful, godless colony on the planet Kepler-22b. Their treacherous task is jeopardized by the arrival of the Mithraic, a deeply devout religious order of surviving humans.

Father

Strike

SeriesCrimeDrama

A war veteran turned private detective operates out of a tiny office in London’s Denmark Street. Although wounded both physically and psychologically, his unique insight and background as a military police investigator prove crucial in solving complex crimes that have baffled the police. Based on the bestselling novels written by J.K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

Jonah Agyeman

Agatha Raisin

Agatha Raisin · 2016

SeriesComedyMystery

Burnt out on office politics, Agatha Raisin retires early to a picturesque village in the Cotswolds and soon finds a second career as an amateur detective investigating mischief, mayhem, and murder in her deceptively quaint town.

Jonah McGillivray

Fortitude

Fortitude · 2015

SeriesCrimeDrama

Fortitude is a place like nowhere else. Although surrounded by the savage beauty of the Arctic landscape, Fortitude is one of the safest towns on earth. There has never been a violent crime here. Until now. In such a close-knit community a murder touches everyone and the unsettling, mysterious horror of this crime threatens the future of the town itself.

Boyd Mulvihill

Critical Role Abridged

Critical Role Abridged · 2024

Critical Role Abridged

SeriesDramaComedy

All the twists and turns of an episode of Critical Role in half the time! In Critical Role Abridged, the rich tapestry of a Critical Role campaign is lovingly distilled to its most pivotal, hilarious, and poignant moments in about 60-90 minutes per episode.

Coru / S.I.L.A.H.A.

The Sisters Grimm

The Sisters Grimm · 2025

The Sisters Grimm

SeriesAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy

One year after their parents' mysterious disappearance, sisters Sabrina and Daphne move to a magical town where fairytales are real and secrets lurk behind every corner.

Charming (voice)

Jamestown

Jamestown · 2017

The early 17th Century story of three courageous, dynamic women who leave their dark pasts behind in England, and make the journey of a lifetime across the ocean for a new life in America.

Pedro

The Jury

The Jury · 2002

SeriesDramaCrime

The Jury is a British television serial broadcast in 2002. The series was the first ever to be allowed to film inside the historic Old Bailey courthouse.

Sadam

Spotless

Spotless · 2015

SeriesDramaCrime

In London, the life of Jean, a troubled crime scene cleaner, is turned upside down when his outlaw brother Martin crash lands into his world, entangling them in the deadly dynamics of organized crime.

Charlie

Informer

Informer · 2018

SeriesDramaCrime

Raza, a young second-generation British-Pakistani man from London is coerced by Gabe, a counterterrorism officer, into informing.

Yousef Hassan

Age of Umbra

Age of Umbra · 2025

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyAction & Adventure

Small communities hold fast against the darkness of a dying world in Age of Umbra, a dark, survival fantasy Daggerheart series. Each season follows a different group of misfits in a different part of The Halcyon Domain, a world that was abandoned a century ago by the gods

Mercy

Copenhagen Cowboy

Copenhagen Cowboy · 2023

Copenhagen Cowboy

SeriesCrimeDrama

After a lifetime of being sold as a human good luck charm, a woman with mysterious supernatural abilities seeks revenge against those who wronged her.

Danny: voice

Natural Six

Natural Six · 2024

SeriesSci-Fi & Fantasy

In the world of Reliquiae, a group of five heroes, bound by fate and The Web's influence, embarks on a mission that unravels hidden truths about the world and ancient powers.

Sabanzu Mar

Supa Team 4

Supa Team 4 · 2023

SeriesAction & AdventureAnimation

Four teens are just trying to survive secondary school when an ex-spy recruits them for her superhero team. Their newest assignment? Saving the world.

Principal Nkwashi (voice)

Thresher

Thresher · 2025

SeriesDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

Deep in the abyss, a motley crew boards the S.S. Thresher submarine to explore the abandoned Rán Boer station. Fighting claustrophobia, paranoia, oceanic behemoths, and hidden horrors, one thing is certain: from the deep, power rises.

Daemon Adams

Age of Umbra: Sallowlands

Age of Umbra: Sallowlands · 2026

Age of Umbra: Sallowlands

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyAction & Adventure

Follow five misfits seeking solace within the mysteries of a new region: The Sallowlands. This swathe of cracked badlands holds secrets that could lead them to salvation – or into the jaws of ancient horror. This all-new, six-part Daggerheart mini-series will be led by Game Master Matthew Mercer as he brings players Laura Bailey, Jennifer English, Abubakar Salim, Vico Ortiz, and Zachery Renauldo through a brand new standalone adventure!

Mercy