Bilal Baig Bio, Age, Partner, Career, Net Worth & More
Bilal Baig is a Canadian author and actor, best known for his play Acha Bacha and the television series Sort of.
Bilal Baig is the co-creator, co-writer, and star of Sort Of, a CBC TV comedy series about gendered characters. Baig is the first South Asian queer Muslim actor to direct a series for Canadian primetime television. The series premiered on CBC in 2021.
Bilal Baig biography
Bilal Baig is a 27-year-old Canadian writer and actor, best known for his play ‘Acha Bacha’ and the television series ‘Sort of’. Acha Bacha is about a non-binary Pakistani Canadian struggling to reconcile his gender with his Muslim education and upbringing, which was staged in 2018 in the Theater Passe Muraille co-production with Buddies in Bad Times.
Bilal Baig is the co-creator, co-writer, and star of Sort Of, a CBC TV comedy series about gendered characters. Baig is the first South Asian queer Muslim actor to direct a series for Canadian primetime television. The series premiered on CBC in 2021.
Sort of was the overall winner in the television category at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022, but Bilal Baig declined to apply due to the gender differences between Best Actor in a Comedy Series and Best Actress in a Comedy Series.
Subsequently, the Canadian Academy of Film and Television announced that it would be awarding a gender-neutral Best Performance award starting with the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023, instead of separate gender categories for actors and actresses.
Bilal Baig age
The ‘Sort Of co-creator and star Bilal Baig is 27 years old and born in Mississauga Ontario and has already broken boundaries in the representation of queer, trans-feminine, and Muslim identity on TV.
Bilal Baig’s actual age isn’t known but she’s believed to be 27 years now as she was born in 1995 making her one of the youngest successful actors we have in the world.
Bilal Baig career
Bilal Baig is a South Asian-Canadian playwright, actor, and workshop facilitator who grew up in Mississauga, Ontario. She identifies as queer, transfeminine Muslim.
The show has been praised for breaking down barriers, from its normal portrayal of transgender people to Bilal Baig becoming the first queer South Asian Muslim actor in a Canadian primetime series LGBTQAI2S+ leads. Unlike other CBC shows that do, on Schitt’s Creek, Sort Of has little to no camps and no stereotypes.
Sort Of won a Peabody Award and was the most-nominated series at the tenth Canadian Screen Awards (winning Best Comedy, Best Writing in a Comedy Series, and Best Makeup).
Bilal Baig partner
The shy TV star, Bilal Baig is not currently in any relationship per our research, and being an LGBTQAI2S+ advocate and a transgender, most people are looking forward to seeing her in a relationship.
Bilal Baig parents
The parents of Bilal Baig are South Asian Muslims who immigrated to Pakistan and come from a conservative neighborhood where cultures and religions are revered and carefully observed. Her parents are not in the spotlight, hence there’s no other information about their life and family.
According to information, Bilal Baig is yet to talk to her parents about her sexuality and is hoping to do so after the release of her movie Sort Of.
Bilal Baig net worth
The queer Muslim who writes plays, acts sometimes, directs, and facilitates collective community-centered creations Bilal Baig earns a handsome salary from her profession and her Net worth is estimated to be $1 Million – $2 Million in 2022.
Bilal Baig twitter
On Twitter, the Sort Of star Bilal Baig goes by the handle @mbilalbaig and she seems not to be very active on the bird app.
Bilal Baig Instagram
Bilal Baig goes by the handle @sortofbilal on Instagram.
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