Nazeem Hussain

About

Nazeem Hussain is a comedian and actor who is best-known as one-half of the comedy team Fear of a Brown Planet, along with his long-time friend and colleague Aamer Rahman. Born and raised in Melbourne, Australia to parents of Sri Lanken-Tamil descent, he began performing stand-up in his teenage years while also getting involved with anti-racism activism. As he and Rahman gained steam under the name Fear of Brown Planet during the early 2010s, they stood out among other comedians for their unique stand-point on otherwise common social criticisms of while privilege, religious wars and and structured racism. As an actor and solo performer, he has made a name for himself through various television gigs, such as the comedy series Legally Brown, which he co-wrote and starred in.