Waseem Mirza

Waseem Mirza is an award-winning British TV Presenter with TV Drama acting credits including the BBC daytime drama series Doctors. He was hired by BBC News as a TV News Journalist while he was still studying in his final year at the University of Lincoln. Before graduating, he had already worked for the BBC News Channel (UK only), BBC World News Channel (Outside UK) and the BBC Asian Network (a UK network radio station) before joining BBC Look East in the East of England. He has worked on a range of programmes incuding the BBC's flagship international technology news feature show: "Click" (then known as "Click Online"). He's been named TV Hotshot by Broadcast (UK trade magazine), as part of their influential annual list of Britain's top TV talent under 29. Before his debut in British news and factual television, he landed a role as a Double for the daytime BBC drama series "Doctors", playing the character Dr Rana Mistry, (originally played by Akbar Kurtha) during his undergraduate years. He had already appeared as an uncredited Extra, then upgraded to a Featured part as "Boyfriend" reacting to a hold-up in a Mothercare store in Birmingham. The drama series was being filmed at BBC Pebble Mill before its relocation to a new Drama Village at Selly Oak. Waseem also co-presented a National Film & Television School pilot entertainment show, part-funded by the BBC. As a teenager, he appeared as himself on the Nickelodeon show: School of the Week presented by Jenny Powell, when it featured his school Thomas Deacon Academy (then known as Deacon's School). He is known to be an electric car advocate having covered the latest developments in the technology for BBC Television. His electric driving adventure went viral among tech-lifestyle blogs when reporting from a Motorway Service Station in South East Britain. He is a member of the Association of British Science Writers, and, as a multi-talented performer, is listed on Spotlight.com