Aamer Husain is an Indian American/Canadian actor working in film, television, and theatre based in New York. He shortly attended the University of Texas at Austin, and The Eugene O' Neill Theater Center, and is a recipient of the Lin Manuel Miranda fellowship. His name is of Urdu origin and means "prosperous", "full of life". He speaks English, Urdu, and Arabic fluently, and is also skilled in gymnastics and continues to go to the gym to keep his skills up.