Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie

Acting 79 June 19, 1947

Mumbai, India

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie FRSL is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children, won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel o…

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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

6.1 2015 TV Show
Bridget Jones's Diary

Bridget Jones's Diary

6.7 2001 Movie
The Daily Show

The Daily Show

6.4 1996 TV Show
Curb Your Enthusiasm

Curb Your Enthusiasm

8.0 2000 TV Show
DAS!

DAS!

4.7 1991 TV Show
Real Time with Bill Maher

Real Time with Bill Maher

6.0 2003 TV Show
Morgenmagazin

Morgenmagazin

5.3 1992 TV Show
Markus Lanz

Markus Lanz

5.5 2008 TV Show
The One Show

The One Show

4.4 2006 TV Show
Have I Got News for You

Have I Got News for You

7.1 1990 TV Show
Beckmann

Beckmann

4.5 1999 TV Show
Kulturzeit

Kulturzeit

4.7 1995 TV Show

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Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie FRSL is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children, won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two separate occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2026
    Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie

    Movie Self

  2. 2025
    Orwell: 2+2=5

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  3. 2024
    Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly

    Movie Self - Interviewed Guest

  4. 2019
    Einübung ins Paradies - Nachdenken über 1989

    Movie Self

  5. 2019
    Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail

    Movie Self - Writer

  6. 2018
    Angela Carter: Of Wolves & Women

    Movie Himself - Contributor

  7. 2018
    Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

    TV show Self

  8. 2016
    Bosch: The Garden of Dreams

    Movie Self

  9. 2015
    Mylène Farmer : Sur les pas d'une icône

    Movie Self

  10. 2015
    Das Literarische Quartett

    TV show Self

  11. 2015
    Concerning the Bodyguard

    Movie voice

  12. 2015
    The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

    TV show Self

  13. 2014
    The Hitch

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  14. 2014
    W1A

    TV show Self

  15. 2014
    River of Fundament

    Movie Wake Guest

  16. 2012
    Midnight's Children

    Movie Narrator (voice)

More credits
  1. 2009
    Amos Oz: The Nature of Dreams

    Movie Self

  2. 2009
    La Traversée du désir

    Movie Self

  3. 2009
    The Satanic Verses Affair

    Movie Himself

  4. 2008
    Markus Lanz

    TV show Self

  5. 2007
    365 Day Project

    Movie Self

  6. 2007
    Then She Found Me

    Movie Dr. Masani

  7. 2007
    Der Unbequeme - Der Dichter Günter Grass

    Movie Self

  8. 2007
    Shrink Rap

    TV show Self

  9. 2006
    The One Show

    TV show Self - Guest

  10. 2005
    9/11/03: A Day in the Life of New York

    Movie

  11. 2004
    The Culture Show

    TV show Self

  12. 2003
    Can't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles

    Movie Self - Interviewee

  13. 2003
    Real Time with Bill Maher

    TV show Self

  14. 2001
    Bridget Jones's Diary

    Movie Salman Rushdie

  15. 2000
    The Beatles Revolution

    Movie Self

  16. 2000
    Curb Your Enthusiasm

    TV show Salman Rushdie

  17. 2000
    Dirty Pictures

    Movie Self

  18. 1999
    Wintertijd

    TV show Self

  19. 1999
    In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

    Movie Self

  20. 1999
    Beckmann

    TV show Self

  21. 1998
    Sternstunde Philosophie

    TV show Self

  22. 1998
    Sabine Christiansen

    TV show Self

  23. 1997
    Ruby

    TV show Self

  24. 1996
    The Daily Show

    TV show Self