[1] Adnan began his career after attending National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA) and Arizona State University.
[2] A mass communication graduate, before taking on acting, he was for some time a broadcast journalist for Dawn News.
[3] After attending NAPA, where Khalid Ahmed was his voice teacher, Adnan got his breakthrough as a stage actor when he was cast in Oedipus Rex, a play directed by Zia Mohyeddin.
[4] Adnan made his television debut in 2012[citation needed] and is well-known for his roles in projects such as Coke Kahani (2012), Behadd (2013), Jackson Heights (2014), Jo Bichar Gaye (2021-2022) and Hum Tum (2022).
[citation needed] He made his film debut in 2015 with Jalaibee followed by Manto (2015), Moor (2015) and Jeewan Hathi (2016).