Vincent Ebrahim is a South African actor of Indian ethnicity. Born in 1951, he studied drama at the University of Cape Town. He is the brother of South African actress Vinette Ebrahim, who is best known for playing the role of Charmaine Beukes in the Afrikaans soap opera Sewende Laan.
After immigrating to Britain in 1976, he spent a decade with community theatre companies performing in plays such as
Since 1990, he has worked with Tara Arts, performing in such plays as Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Tartuffe, Oedipus the King, Troilus and Cressida, and Antigone. He has also performed in many radio plays for BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4 in the UK.[1] More recently he has appeared on stage at the Tricycle Theatre in the critically praised [2] play The Great Game.[3] For television he has appeared in
He is probably best known for playing Ashwin Kumar, the finance-obsessed father on The Kumars at No. 42. [6]