Mo Farah

Career overview

Sir Mohamed Muktar Jama Farah, also known as Sir Mo Farah, was born on March 23, 1983, in Mogadishu, Somalia. He is known as an actor and has known credits in sixteen works listed in the database. His acting and television work includes appearances in various programmes and specials such as Mo Farah: No Easy Mile, The Real Mo Farah, Pre's People, Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas, Taskmaster, The Graham Norton Show, I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, and Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway.

Outside of his media work, he is widely recognized as a British former long-distance runner and the most successful male track distance runner in the history of the sport, holding the record for the most global championship gold medals with four Olympic and six World titles. He won gold medals in the 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter races at both the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games, making him the second man to achieve consecutive wins in those events across two Olympics, and he later won the Chicago Marathon in 2018.