Sam Naz

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. Her parents moved to England in the 1970s. 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.

Career

In 2010 she became the main presenter of BBC Three'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 Sky News in 2016. She also chaired a special Media Summits event about Brexit in 2017, which featured Ed Vaizey.

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. Naz was brought in to launch Euronews Tonight in 2018 as part of the NBC News partnership with European network Euronews.

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 and was released by Sky in the UK and The History Channel globally in February 2023. As of 2023, her production company, Laconic Raven, is developing a dramatic mini-series about the SOE.

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