Samreen "Sam" Naz is a British television presenter, actress and screenwriter currently working as a

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for

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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 Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, GC (1 January 1914 – 13 September 1944), also known as Nora Inayat-Khan and Nora Baker, was a British resistance agent in France in the Second World War who served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE). The purpo ...

, a secret agent working for Britain's

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(SOE) during the Second World War.

Early life and education

Naz was born and brought up in

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and is of

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descent. She studied Economics and Politics at the

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. In 2002, she was awarded a bursary from the George Viner Memorial Fund, an initiative by the

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to broaden the diversity of journalists in the media.

Career

In 2010 she became the main presenter of

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's ''60 Seconds'', anchoring the bulletins from Mondays to Thursdays. She also co-hosted BBC Three's live political discussion programme ''Free Speech''. Naz joined the line-up at

in 2016. She also chaired a special Media Summits event about

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in 2017, which featured

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. Sam Naz has been a regular anchor of the overnight and early morning coverage on

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. Naz was brought in to launch ''Euronews Tonight'' in 2018 as part of the

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partnership with European network

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. Naz wrote, produced and starred in a short film called ''Liberté'', in which she played the lead role of

, a Muslim secret agent working for Britain's

(SOE) during the Second World War. The film premiered in Los Angeles in September 2021 and was released by Sky in the UK and The History Channel globally in February 2023.

Credits

Television

Film

References

External links

Sam Naz's BBC Three blog postsMedia Summits panel discussion on Brexit hosted by Sam Naz
{{DEFAULTSORT:Naz, Sam Living people Alumni of Leeds Trinity University Alumni of the University of Leeds British television newsreaders and news presenters English people of Pakistani descent Mass media people from Birmingham, West Midlands Sky News newsreaders and journalists Year of birth missing (living people)