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 ye