Jan Uddin

Jan Uddin is an English actor of Bangladeshi descent. He is best known for his roles in the BBC soap opera EastEnders playing Jalil Iqbal, the role of Sweet Boy in the 2010 film Shank, or in the film Boogie Woogie.

Uddin was born in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, England. He moved to London at the age ofand then trained to become an actor at the Academy Drama School. In July 2010, Uddin revealed that his father used to beat him viciously, refused to let him watch TV or read books, and one night dragged his family back to Bangladesh. Of this Uddin said, he just shoved us in a van, and next thing we knew we were no longer living in Birmingham but in Bangladesh. For a whole year, we all had a horrible time because he told us we were never coming back to England. Uddin further revealed that he had been involved with gangs, and that his mother is battling cancer for the fifth time.

Source: Wikipedia