Cast & creator
Jim Al-Khalili
Best known for Horizon, Pointless Celebrities, Cunk on...
Jameel Sadik "Jim" Al-Khalili (Arabic: جميل صادق الخليلي; born September 20, 1962) is an Iraqi-British theoretical physicist and science populariser. He is professor of theoretical physics and chair in the public engagement in science at the University of Surrey. He is a regular broadcaster and presenter of science programmes on BBC radio and television, and a frequent commentator about science in other British media.
Also known as: Professor Jim Al-Khalili
16
film credits
24
television credits
35
1964–2025 · acting roles
7.2
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (40)
Showing 40 of 40 credits
Horizon
Self - Presenter
1964
Pointless Celebrities
Self
2011
Cunk on...
Self - Professor of Public Engagement in Science
2018
Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity
Self - Presenter
2011Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity
Presenter
2011
Cunk on Life
Self
2024
Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World
Self - Presenter
2019
A Night with the Stars
Self
2011
Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies
Self
2022
A Night with the Stars
Participant
2011
Genius of Britain
Presenter
2010
Fukushima: Is Nuclear Power Safe?
2011
The Secrets of Quantum Physics
Self - Presenter
2014The Secrets of Quantum Physics
Writer
2014
The Beginning and End of the Universe
Self
2016
Secrets of the Solar System
Narrator
2020
Atom
Presenter
2007
The Science of Doctor Who
Self
2013The Science of Doctor Who
2012
Amazing Gravity
Self
2017
Order and Disorder
Self - Presenter
2012
Chemistry: A Volatile History
Self - Presenter
2010
Light and Dark
Self - Presenter
2016
Secrets of the Brain
Self - Presenter
2025
Jim Al-Khalili's Guide to Life, the Universe and Everything
Self
2021
Everything and Nothing
Presenter
2011
The Beginning and End of the Universe
Himself - Presenter
2016
The Secret Life of Chaos
Himself - Presenter
2010
Everything and Nothing
Self - Presenter
2011
The Joy of AI
Self - Presenter
2018
The Amazing World of Gravity
2017
Unser Universum - Geburt und Untergang
Director
2017
Everything and Nothing
Jim Al-Khalili
2011
Rapid Motion Through Space: An Incomplete History of Speed
Himself
2023
Lost Horizons: The Big Bang
Guest Star
2008
Britain's Nuclear Secrets: Inside Sellafield
Himself - Presenter
2015
Gravity and Me: The Force That Shapes Our Lives
Himself - Presenter
2017
Science And Islam
Self - Presenter
2009
Science and Islam
Presented by
2009Science and Islam
Presenter
2009