TJ Ramini
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TJ Ramini is an English
actor best known for his role as DC Zain Nadir in The Bill
.
He attended King Alfred School
in North London. His father is Palestinian
, while his mother is Australian and was a newsreader for ITV
. He is also of Russian Jewish
and Scottish
ancestry. At 19, he moved to Australia
, where he appeared in various acting roles. Other roles included guest parts in the hospital drama Casualty, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
and in the Hollywood movie Batman Begins
.
He recently guest appeared in Boston Legal
as a man who is wrongfully detained and tortured at Guantanamo Bay
. Also in the US, Ramini appeared in the Desperate Housewives
episode "Mama Spent Money When She Had None
" as Yaniv.
He more recently appeared in the eighth season of 24
and NCIS
.
He is engaged to singer/songwriter/producer Annie McQueen and they reside in Los Angeles
, USA.
TJ is a huge football fan and has been a Tottenham Hotspur supporter all his life. He is from North London where 'Spurs' are based and his whole family are avid fans.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
actor best known for his role as DC Zain Nadir in The Bill
The Bill
The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...
.
He attended King Alfred School
King Alfred School
The King Alfred School was founded in London, England, in 1898.The school was radical for its time in that it provided a secular education and that boys and girls were educated together.-Aim:...
in North London. His father is Palestinian
Palestinian people
The Palestinian people, also referred to as Palestinians or Palestinian Arabs , are an Arabic-speaking people with origins in Palestine. Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one third of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza...
, while his mother is Australian and was a newsreader for ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
. He is also of Russian Jewish
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
and Scottish
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
ancestry. At 19, he moved to Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, where he appeared in various acting roles. Other roles included guest parts in the hospital drama Casualty, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries is a series of BBC television programmes about Detective Inspector Thomas "Tommy" Lynley, 8th Earl of Asherton of Scotland Yard and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers...
and in the Hollywood movie Batman Begins
Batman Begins
Batman Begins is a 2005 American superhero action film based on the fictional DC Comics character Batman, directed by Christopher Nolan. It stars Christian Bale as Batman, along with Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Cillian Murphy, Morgan Freeman, Ken Watanabe, Tom Wilkinson,...
.
He recently guest appeared in Boston Legal
Boston Legal
Boston Legal is an American legal dramedy created by David E. Kelley, which was produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television for the ABC...
as a man who is wrongfully detained and tortured at Guantanamo Bay
Guantanamo Bay detainment camp
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a detainment and interrogation facility of the United States located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. The facility was established in 2002 by the Bush Administration to hold detainees from the war in Afghanistan and later Iraq...
. Also in the US, Ramini appeared in the Desperate Housewives
Desperate Housewives
Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. Executive producer Cherry serves as Showrunner. Other executive producers since the fourth season include Marc Cherry, Bob Daily, George W...
episode "Mama Spent Money When She Had None
Mama Spent Money When She Had None
"Mama Spent Money When She Had None" is the 101st episode of the ABC television series Desperate Housewives. It is the fourteenth episode of the show's fifth season and aired on February 8, 2009.-Plot:...
" as Yaniv.
He more recently appeared in the eighth season of 24
24 (TV series)
24 is an American television series produced for the Fox Network and syndicated worldwide, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer. Each 24-episode season covers 24 hours in the life of Bauer, using the real time method of narration...
and NCIS
NCIS (TV series)
NCIS, formerly known as NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, is an American police procedural drama television series revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the U.S...
.
He is engaged to singer/songwriter/producer Annie McQueen and they reside in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, USA.
TJ is a huge football fan and has been a Tottenham Hotspur supporter all his life. He is from North London where 'Spurs' are based and his whole family are avid fans.
Films
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Dating the Enemy Dating the Enemy Dating The Enemy is an Australian comedy about a boyfriend and girlfriend who swap bodies and have to live as each other.-Plot:One Valentine's evening a group of single, dateless friends get together to play Trivial Pursuit. Brett , a friend of the host from Melbourne, has just landed a job as... |
Troy | as Tarek Ramini |
| 2003 | The Death of Klinghoffer The Death of Klinghoffer The Death of Klinghoffer is an American opera, with music by John Adams to an English-language libretto by Alice Goodman. First produced in Brussels and New York in 1991, the opera is based on the hijacking of the passenger liner Achille Lauro by the Palestine Liberation Front in 1985, and the... |
Ismael | as Tarek Ramini |
| 2004 | Spivs Spivs (film) Spivs is a British comedy-crime drama film directed by Colin Teague, who also cowrote the screenplay along with screenwriters Gary Young, and Mike Loveday. It is the second of three undertakings by Teague and Young, the others being Shooters and The Last Drop, respectively... |
Pavel | as Tarek Ramini |
| 2005 | Batman Begins Batman Begins Batman Begins is a 2005 American superhero action film based on the fictional DC Comics character Batman, directed by Christopher Nolan. It stars Christian Bale as Batman, along with Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Cillian Murphy, Morgan Freeman, Ken Watanabe, Tom Wilkinson,... |
Crane Thug #1 | |
TV
| Year | Show | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Fallen Angels Fallen Angels (Australian TV series) Fallen Angels was an Australian television series screened on the ABC in 1997. There was only one series of 20 episodes produced. The series was set around a community legal centre in Endeavour Park, a fictional western suburb of Sydney... |
Barman | as Tarek Ramini; 1 episode: Hair |
| 2001 | Waking the Dead Waking the Dead (TV series) Waking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series produced by the BBC featuring a fictional Cold Case Unit comprising CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in September 2000 and there have been a total of nine series... |
Majid Kahn | as Tarek Ramini; 1 episode: Special Relationships |
| 2001–2003 | Casualty Casualty (TV series) Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The... |
PC Russell | as Tarek Ramini; recurring |
| 2003 | The Inspector Lynley Mysteries The Inspector Lynley Mysteries The Inspector Lynley Mysteries is a series of BBC television programmes about Detective Inspector Thomas "Tommy" Lynley, 8th Earl of Asherton of Scotland Yard and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers... |
Muneer Malik | as Tarek Ramini; 1 episode: Deception on His Mind |
| Adventure Inc | Loesan | 1 episode: The Man Who Wouldn't Be King | |
| The Bill The Bill The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work... |
Ravi Bhatia | 1 episode | |
| 2005 | Ultimate Force Ultimate Force Ultimate Force is a British television drama series that was shown on ITV, which deals with the activities of the fictional Red Troop of the SAS... |
Drew Jordan | 1 episode: Class of 1980 |
| Dalziel and Pascoe Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC TV series) Dalziel and Pascoe is a popular British television crime drama based on the Dalziel and Pascoe books by Reginald Hill, which was first broadcast in March 1996. It is set in Yorkshire, and is about two detectives... |
Visha Iqbal | 2 episodes: Dust Thou Art (Parts 1 & 2) | |
| 2005–2007 | The Bill The Bill The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work... |
DC Zain Nadir | Series regular |
| 2007 | Boston Legal Boston Legal Boston Legal is an American legal dramedy created by David E. Kelley, which was produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television for the ABC... |
Benyam Kallah | 1 episode: Guantanamo by the Bay |
| 2008 | Heroes and Villains Heroes and Villains (TV series) Heroes and Villains was a 2007-2008 BBC Television docudrama series looking at key moments in the lives and reputations of some of the greatest warriors of history. Each hour long episode featured a different historical figure, including Napoleon I of France, Attila the Hun, Spartacus, Hernán... |
Cuauhtemoc | 1 episode: Cortes |
| 2009 | Desperate Housewives Desperate Housewives Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. Executive producer Cherry serves as Showrunner. Other executive producers since the fourth season include Marc Cherry, Bob Daily, George W... |
Yaniv | 1 episode: Mama Spent Money When She Had None Mama Spent Money When She Had None "Mama Spent Money When She Had None" is the 101st episode of the ABC television series Desperate Housewives. It is the fourteenth episode of the show's fifth season and aired on February 8, 2009.-Plot:... |
| 2009 & 2010 | NCIS NCIS (TV series) NCIS, formerly known as NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, is an American police procedural drama television series revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the U.S... |
Mossad Officer Malachi Ben-Gidon | Recurring; 3 episodes |
| 2010 | 24 24 (TV series) 24 is an American television series produced for the Fox Network and syndicated worldwide, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer. Each 24-episode season covers 24 hours in the life of Bauer, using the real time method of narration... |
Tarin Faroush | Recurring; Season 8 24 (season 8) Season Eight, also known as Day 8, is the final season of the American serial television series 24. Filming for the season began on May 27, 2009, and it premiered on January 17, 2010 with a four-hour two-day premiere... |