Sam Naz
BornSamreen Naz
Birmingham, England
EducationLeeds University
OccupationNews presenter, actor, journalist
Works

Samreen "Sam" Naz is a British television presenter, actress and screenwriter currently working as a news anchor for Sky News in London. She has previously hosted several programmes including 60 Seconds. She wrote, produced and starred in a short film called Liberté (2021), in which she played the lead role of Noor Inayat Khan, a secret agent working for Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War.

Early life and education

Naz was born and brought up in Birmingham and is of Pakistani descent.[1] Her parents moved to England in the 1970s.[2] She studied Economics and Politics at the University of Leeds. In 2002, she was awarded a bursary from the George Viner Memorial Fund, an initiative by the National Union of Journalists to broaden the diversity of journalists in the media.[3]

Career

In 2010 she became the main presenter of BBC Three's 60 Seconds, anchoring the bulletins from Mondays to Thursdays.[4] She also co-hosted BBC Three's live political discussion programme Free Speech. Naz joined the line-up at Sky News in 2016. She also chaired a special Media Summits event about Brexit in 2017, which featured Ed Vaizey.[5]

Sam Naz has been a regular anchor of the overnight and early morning coverage on Sky News since 2016, typically being on air from midnight til 6am presenting Sky Midnight News and Sky World News. As of 2021, she has been the most frequent presenter of this slot.[6] Naz was brought in to launch Euronews Tonight in 2018 as part of the NBC News partnership with European network Euronews.[2]

Naz wrote, produced and starred in a short film called Liberté, in which she played the lead role of Noor Inayat Khan, a Muslim secret agent working for Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. The film premiered in Los Angeles in September 2021[7][1] and was released by Sky in the UK and The History Channel globally in February 2023.[2] As of 2023, her production company, Laconic Raven, is developing a dramatic mini-series about the SOE.[2]

Credits

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2011–201660 SecondsPresenterBBC Three [4]
2012Free SpeechSocial Media JockeyBBC Three[8]
2013–20168pm News SummaryPresenterBBC One
Since 2016Sky NewsNews AnchorSky
2016–2018Channel 5 NewsNews Anchor/ReporterITN Productions
2016Berlin StationBBC Commentator (acting role)Paramount[9]
2018Euronews TonightHostNBC
2021COBRABroadcaster (acting role)Sky[10]
2022The Fear IndexTV News Anchor (acting role)Sky[11]
2023Alice & JackReporter (acting role)Channel 4[12]

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2021LibertéNoor Inayat KhanActor, writer, producer[2]
2021Red SandraWorld News AnchorActor[13]

References

  1. 1 2 "Little-known British Muslim WWII spy story comes to film". The Washington Times. Archived from the original on 2022-10-01. Retrieved 2022-01-09.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Ravindran, Manori (4 January 2023). "Story of Groundbreaking British Muslim Spy Who Resisted Nazis in WWII Acquired by Sky History". Variety. Archived from the original on 5 January 2023. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
  3. ↑ "George Viner Memorial Fund scholars". nuj.org.uk. National Union of Journalists. Archived from the original on 12 June 2020. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
  4. 1 2 "New presenters announced for BBC Three's 60seconds news bulletin". BBC. 14 July 2011. Archived from the original on 17 July 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  5. ↑ Bevir, George (24 November 2017). "Brexit is a 'massive risk' to the UK's creative industries". IBC. Archived from the original on 28 March 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  6. ↑ "Sam Naz". IMDb. Archived from the original on 2022-08-26. Retrieved 2021-07-01.
  7. ↑ Nazir, Asjad (15 September 2021). "Sky News host Sam Naz tells an epic spy story". Eastern Eye. Archived from the original on 9 January 2022. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  8. ↑ "Free speech: body beautiful special". BBC. Archived from the original on 27 March 2020. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  9. ↑ "Sam Naz on IMDb". IMDb. Archived from the original on 2019-10-01. Retrieved 2020-04-18.
  10. ↑ "Cobra on IMDb". IMDb.
  11. ↑ "Sam Naz on IMDb". IMDb.
  12. ↑ "Alice & Jack on IMDb". IMDb.
  13. ↑ "Red Sandra on IMDb". IMDb.
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