
Salman Rushdie
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Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie FRSL is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children, won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two separate occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.
Known for
Credits

Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
as Salman Rushdie

Orwell: 2+2=5 (2025)
as Self (archive footage)

Then She Found Me (2007)
as Dr. Masani

La Traversée du désir (2009)
as Self

Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie (2026)
as Self

The Hitch (2014)
as Self (archive footage)

Can't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles (2003)
as Self - Interviewee
The Beatles Revolution (2000)
as Self

River of Fundament (2014)
as Wake Guest

Midnight's Children (2012)
as Narrator (voice)

365 Day Project (2007)
as Self

Dirty Pictures (2000)
as Self

Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail (2019)
as Self - Writer

Angela Carter: Of Wolves & Women (2018)
as Himself - Contributor

Bosch: The Garden of Dreams (2016)
as Self
In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (1999)
as Self

Mylène Farmer : sur les pas d'une icône (2015)
as Self

Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly (2024)
as Self - Interviewed Guest
9/11/03: A Day in the Life of New York (2005)
Actor

Amos Oz: The Nature of Dreams (2009)
as Self

The Satanic Verses Affair (2009)
as Himself
Writers in Conversation: Edward Said with Salman Rushdie (1986)
as Himself
Concerning the Bodyguard (2015)
as voice
Einübung ins Paradies - Nachdenken über 1989 (2019)
as Self

Der Unbequeme - Der Dichter Günter Grass (2007)
as Self
The Painter & The Pest (1985)
as Self (Narrator)





