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Usama Khan (born 22 November 1991) is a Pakistani television actor. Khan is best known for portraying the main role Tabrez in 2018 soap Sanwari for which he received Hum Award for Best Soap Actor. He further portraying main role in A-Plus TV's Bezuban and Hum TV's Main Khwab Bunti Hon. His other works in the same year include Bisaat e Dil (2019), Ghalati (2019), and Haqeeqat (2019). Khan is recently seen portraying pivotal role Affan in Momina Duraid's Dobara.

Khan was born and raised in Gujranwala, Punjab and did his early schooling at St. Peter's High School, in Toba Tek Singh.^[1] In 2011, he moved to Lahore in order to become a chartered account, and after completing his ACCA from the SKANS School of Accountancy, he worked for Silk Bank, an audit firm and a corporate company.^[1]

Since college days, he aspired to pursue a career in acting.^[1]

Before becoming an actor he did a corporate job in the United Arab Emirates.^[2]

In 2017, he made his acting debut with a supporting role in Urdu 1 series Mujhay Jeenay Do. In an interview, Khan said that director Angeline Malik helped him in getting a debut role and when he came to Karachi, she referred him to other television producers. He went on to play the supporting roles in PTV's Rasmain (2017), Hum TV's Bisaat-e-Dil (2018), TV One's Gori Ki Dukaan (2018) and episodic appearances in Ustani Jee.^[1]

He got his first lead role in Hum TV's Sanwari (2018) opposite Zainab Shabbir. Sanwari ran for 180 episodes and proved to be the breakthrough for him. It also earned him Hum Award for Best Soap Actor.^[3] He further played lead roles in Syed Atif Ali's directed Bezuban (2019) opposite Nawal Saeed and Adeel Qamar's directed Main Khwab Bunti Hon (2019) opposite Michelle Mumtaz.^[1][4] In addition to appearing as lead, he played a supporting role in the romantic drama Ghalati featuring Hira Mani and Affan Waheed in leads, family drama Tamanna opposite Haroon Shahid and Nausheen Ahmed and anthology series Dikhawa.^[4] Besides television, Khan appeared in brand TVC's including Silk Bank, Bold, Jazz and Nestle.^[1]

Khan played the Noriyan in Geo Entertainment's Uraan opposite Kinza Hashmi and Adeel Chaudhry which was produced by Abdullah Kadwani under 7th Sky Entertainment^[5] and Kaafur in Hum TV's horror series Chalawa produced by MD Productions and NJ Films.^[4]

He also played the role of Vicky in Geo Entertainment's Ramadan special Ishq Jalebi.^[6] Furthermore, he also stars in Hum TV's Sitam opposite Nawal Saeed, Moomal Khalid and Saad Qureshi produced by MD Productions and Gold Bridge Media and Geo Entertainment's Mohlat produced by 7th Sky Entertainment which will features Kinza Hashmi, Sami Khan, Komal Aziz Khan, Bushra Ansari and Asma Abbas.^[7]