10 Things You Didn’t Know About Bashy
Bashy was named as one of the Screen International Stars of Tomorrow 2012. The English musician and actor, Bashy was born Ashley Thomas on 4th February 1985 in Chiswick, London. He landed his first role in 2009 as Rager in the British flick, Shank. He then went on to star in Noel Clarke’s 4.3.2.1 that same year. In early 2015, he guest starred in the BBC series, The Interceptor. In March 2016 it was announced that he was set as a lead role in the 20th Century Fox Television reboot of franchise series 24 as Isaac Carter. His next film was My Brother the Devil which received critical acclaim, winning awards at both the Sundance Film Festival and Berlin Film Festival. There is no doubt that the 31-years-old musician and actor has definitely paved a successful path for himself in the entertainment industry.
Here are 10 things you probably didn’t know about the English musician and actor, Bashy:
1. Bashy was born Ashley Thomas on 4th February 1985 in Chiswick, London.
2. He is the first born of a Jamaican mother and Dominican father.
3. He attended The BRIT School for Performing Arts as a theatre student.
4. Prior to embarking on his music career, he worked for Royal Mail as a postman and also as a bus driver.
5. He was also invited to perform at the Love Music Hate Racism Rally in 2008 at Victoria Park, to a crowd of 100,000 and also starred in the 2008 British drama film, Adulthood as an assistant music supervisor for the entire film.
6. In June 2009, he released his debut album; Catch Me If You Can. Hiphop.com rated the album as good and cited that “it’s a debut album that perfectly encapsulates how hip hop has become the world’s local music”.
7. In April 2010 BBC Learning launched Off By Heart Shakespeare, a recital contest for secondary school pupils. For the project he took on the role of Shylock from ‘The Merchant of Venice’ and delivered one of the character’s most memorable speeches; “To bait Fish withal”.
8. In early 2011 he signed on to play the lead role in, The Man Inside, opposite Peter Mullen, David Harewood and Michelle Ryan.
9. His first television role came in the winter of 2011, in the Emmy award winning series Black Mirror by Charlie Brooker for Channel 4 as Judge Wraith.
10. In early 2016 it was confirmed that he would appear as a Calvin Hart in the HBO limited series The Night Of directed by James Marsh and Steve Zaillian.
