Vincent Ebrahim  Vincent Ebrahim (born 1951) is a South African actor and comedian. Ebrahim was born in South Africa in 1951 and studied drama at the University of Cape Town. He immigrated to England in 1976 and began an acting career. Ebrahim spent a decade with community theatre companies performing in plays such as "Away From It" by the Common Stock Theatre Company, "Borderline" by Hanif Kureishi and the Joint Stock Theatre Company and infamous stage play "Tartuffe." Since 1990, he has worked with Tara Arts, performing in such plays as "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme", "Tartuffe", "Oedipus Rex", "Troilus and Cressida", and "Antigone". He has also performed in many radio plays for BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4 in the UK. He also appeared on stage at the Tricycle Theatre in the critically praised play The Great Game. Ebrahim is probably best known for playing Ashwin Kumar, the finance-obsessed father on "The Kumars at No. 42". In March 2013 he won the Safta for Best Supporting Actor in a Feature Film for his work in "Material", which won the best film award. He is the brother of South African actress Vinette Ebrahim, who is best known for playing the role of Charmaine Meintjies in the Afrikaans soap opera "Sewende Laan".