Ghazali, Ali
Nov 16, 2016 13:17:38 GMT -8
Post by Ali Ghazali on Nov 16, 2016 13:17:38 GMT -8
Your Name: Sarah
Age: 20
Contact Info: chatbox is probably best or pm if I'm not on I guess?
Character Name: Ali Ghazali
Age: 33
History
Save for a stint away at Oxford for uni and a short shoot in the States for an independent film, Ali has always been a Londoner. He was born in London to two Pakistani immigrants, and he expects to die in London. He grew up with very little parental oversight, since his two parents were very busy with their respective jobs, and as a teenager his frolicking with friends pretty often strayed into the realm of petty crime.
Extremely clever, he was able to pair his talent with a sort of sob story in his application to get into Oxford's Politics, Philosophy, and Economics program. Like many first-generation kids, he was pushed to become a doctor or a lawyer, and finding himself less than fond of number and with some facility with words, he chose to become a lawyer.
Between his many run-ins with the police and his first time reading Edward Said, by the time he was in his third year, he was hugely involved in politics on the campus, which included quite a bit of controversy over the apparent whiteness of Oxford's theater department and particularly some racist remarks made by the department head. Having taken a few poetry classes for fun which were really terribly white, he felt sympathetic for that cause and jumped aboard a struggling production led by one of his ex girlfriends. As it turned out, hiding your parties and your girlfriends from your parents and playing at respectability politics at school had all been excellent training for the stage, and by the time he graduated, he knew he'd found his calling.
Unfortunately, after a promising start in a couple of stage plays, his career was put on hold for four or five years after his mother fell seriously ill. After her death, he was able to get some work, including a very well-received play, but this is his first major break on screen.
A BBC period piece, he thinks, will be just the thing to get his life back on track again, heading back towards what he always thought it should be. So he jumped on the chance to play Mr Henri Lasalle, a mysterious and possibly very dangerous French-Lebanese merchant whose scheme is slowly revealed throughout the series.
He's excited for the series, but not all excited for Penchurch, especially in winter. He intends to go to London at every opportunity and hopes that work completely swallows up the days until he returns. If that doesn't happen, maybe he'll finally get around to finishing that book of poetry he always wanted to publish.
Appearance
Ali is short. Distinctly, obviously short. There is nothing he can do about it, so he compensates a little by keeping his line beard groomed, his body well-exercised, and his clothes stylish. Usually he keeps to the typical Oxbridge wardrobe, because it's easy to mix and match, it suits professional settings, and it's well-received by ladies. However, when he's relaxing at home, bits and pieces of other things will come in: a salwar kameez, a long-billed baseball cap, a bomber jacket. Depending on how much he's tanned during the summer and the choices of the Director of Photography, he can appear anywhere between the colors of chestnut and khaki.
Personality
Ali is intelligent and ambitious. He can be very charming and convincing, although part of that does seem to involve exaggerations or a great many little lies. His schoolmates at Oxford could never really tell whether he was joking or not about certain childhood escapades he boasted about. One or two ex girlfriends have claimed that he has scars, but they don't agree on the type or location of said scars, so chalk all that down to rumor. Certainly he seems to have a cool head during a crisis. And in uni, he took to boxing like a fish to water.
He enjoys dating, though even when he's had women move in with him, it rarely develops into anything too serious. At first, that was because taking care of his mother made him rather grumpy and and depressed, poor company, and now, it's because frankly his ambitions and his career is more important to him than other people. He’s pretty sure that “true love” and falling in love are just societal constructs; he’s had his fair share of infatuations, but nobody he knows has ever had a real, long-lasting, “first sight till death” relationship. And that’s just fine with him; he gets the fun he needs from dating and real fulfillment from acting. Other than a few core friends from his childhood who he is careful to stay in touch with, he enjoys having friends but lets them come and go as is natural for the industry he's in.
The one thing that could possibly derail Ali on his mission to become one of the acting greats is his uncompromising personality. He has learned to keep a good hold on his temper, but his temper rises often; he pretends to forgive and does not forget. Injustice to anybody he won't stand, but that also makes him rather judgmental. He dismisses entirely people who disagree with him on certain issues and errs on the side of suspicion and realism rather than compromising or giving people the benefit of the doubt. When he thinks he's in the right, it's very difficult to dissuade him. Sometimes he feels deeply depressed and frustrated by the unfairness that he sees in the world, but he is careful not to show this to most people. When that happens, usually he focuses on acting and then holes himself up in his room when work is done.
Secretly, he also considers himself something of a writer and a poet, and because he feels that he doesn't always get the role offers he wants, the next step in his plan for world domination is starring in a movie script he plans to write. After he finishes the poetry, that is. And that would be if he has any time leftover from this shoot. Hm.
That could be a problem, because he's also adventurous and he likes to go out and explore the world. His ego and his capability thus far have led him to believe he can get through about everything, and so in order to get material for his writing and acting, he's willing to try some pretty extreme new experiences. (For example: photographing bears.) Cosmopolitan snob that he is, though, he doubts he'll find much to learn from in Penchurch.
Age: 20
Contact Info: chatbox is probably best or pm if I'm not on I guess?
Character Name: Ali Ghazali
Age: 33
History
Save for a stint away at Oxford for uni and a short shoot in the States for an independent film, Ali has always been a Londoner. He was born in London to two Pakistani immigrants, and he expects to die in London. He grew up with very little parental oversight, since his two parents were very busy with their respective jobs, and as a teenager his frolicking with friends pretty often strayed into the realm of petty crime.
Extremely clever, he was able to pair his talent with a sort of sob story in his application to get into Oxford's Politics, Philosophy, and Economics program. Like many first-generation kids, he was pushed to become a doctor or a lawyer, and finding himself less than fond of number and with some facility with words, he chose to become a lawyer.
Between his many run-ins with the police and his first time reading Edward Said, by the time he was in his third year, he was hugely involved in politics on the campus, which included quite a bit of controversy over the apparent whiteness of Oxford's theater department and particularly some racist remarks made by the department head. Having taken a few poetry classes for fun which were really terribly white, he felt sympathetic for that cause and jumped aboard a struggling production led by one of his ex girlfriends. As it turned out, hiding your parties and your girlfriends from your parents and playing at respectability politics at school had all been excellent training for the stage, and by the time he graduated, he knew he'd found his calling.
Unfortunately, after a promising start in a couple of stage plays, his career was put on hold for four or five years after his mother fell seriously ill. After her death, he was able to get some work, including a very well-received play, but this is his first major break on screen.
A BBC period piece, he thinks, will be just the thing to get his life back on track again, heading back towards what he always thought it should be. So he jumped on the chance to play Mr Henri Lasalle, a mysterious and possibly very dangerous French-Lebanese merchant whose scheme is slowly revealed throughout the series.
He's excited for the series, but not all excited for Penchurch, especially in winter. He intends to go to London at every opportunity and hopes that work completely swallows up the days until he returns. If that doesn't happen, maybe he'll finally get around to finishing that book of poetry he always wanted to publish.
Appearance
Ali is short. Distinctly, obviously short. There is nothing he can do about it, so he compensates a little by keeping his line beard groomed, his body well-exercised, and his clothes stylish. Usually he keeps to the typical Oxbridge wardrobe, because it's easy to mix and match, it suits professional settings, and it's well-received by ladies. However, when he's relaxing at home, bits and pieces of other things will come in: a salwar kameez, a long-billed baseball cap, a bomber jacket. Depending on how much he's tanned during the summer and the choices of the Director of Photography, he can appear anywhere between the colors of chestnut and khaki.
Personality
Ali is intelligent and ambitious. He can be very charming and convincing, although part of that does seem to involve exaggerations or a great many little lies. His schoolmates at Oxford could never really tell whether he was joking or not about certain childhood escapades he boasted about. One or two ex girlfriends have claimed that he has scars, but they don't agree on the type or location of said scars, so chalk all that down to rumor. Certainly he seems to have a cool head during a crisis. And in uni, he took to boxing like a fish to water.
He enjoys dating, though even when he's had women move in with him, it rarely develops into anything too serious. At first, that was because taking care of his mother made him rather grumpy and and depressed, poor company, and now, it's because frankly his ambitions and his career is more important to him than other people. He’s pretty sure that “true love” and falling in love are just societal constructs; he’s had his fair share of infatuations, but nobody he knows has ever had a real, long-lasting, “first sight till death” relationship. And that’s just fine with him; he gets the fun he needs from dating and real fulfillment from acting. Other than a few core friends from his childhood who he is careful to stay in touch with, he enjoys having friends but lets them come and go as is natural for the industry he's in.
The one thing that could possibly derail Ali on his mission to become one of the acting greats is his uncompromising personality. He has learned to keep a good hold on his temper, but his temper rises often; he pretends to forgive and does not forget. Injustice to anybody he won't stand, but that also makes him rather judgmental. He dismisses entirely people who disagree with him on certain issues and errs on the side of suspicion and realism rather than compromising or giving people the benefit of the doubt. When he thinks he's in the right, it's very difficult to dissuade him. Sometimes he feels deeply depressed and frustrated by the unfairness that he sees in the world, but he is careful not to show this to most people. When that happens, usually he focuses on acting and then holes himself up in his room when work is done.
Secretly, he also considers himself something of a writer and a poet, and because he feels that he doesn't always get the role offers he wants, the next step in his plan for world domination is starring in a movie script he plans to write. After he finishes the poetry, that is. And that would be if he has any time leftover from this shoot. Hm.
That could be a problem, because he's also adventurous and he likes to go out and explore the world. His ego and his capability thus far have led him to believe he can get through about everything, and so in order to get material for his writing and acting, he's willing to try some pretty extreme new experiences. (For example: photographing bears.) Cosmopolitan snob that he is, though, he doubts he'll find much to learn from in Penchurch.
