Dato' Afdlin Shauki bin Aksan (born 19 May 1971) is a Malaysian producer, screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, singer, songwriter, and television presenter and politician.
He also made a guest appearance with David Foster's protege Jordan Hill for her 1997 Malaysian tour singing 'Till the end of time'.
As a film actor, his local debut was as part of the supporting cast for Pesona Pictures' Mimpi Moon, which was followed by his role as the "Interpreter" in the Hollywood movie "Anna and the King".
His screen debut as a writer and director, as well as lead actor, manifested in Buli a Grand Brilliance produced film about a technical savant and social misfit in a corporate and highly socialised world.
In 2007 he produced, co-directed and co-wrote Sumolah under his company Vision Works, which was invited to show at the Fukuoka International Film Festival.
In 2009, Afdlin produced the film Papadom, a story about a distracted, busy father who loses his wife in an accident, and ends up becoming over-protective of his only daughter.
[1] In 2012, it was reported that Afdlin previously had joined UMNO with the hope of getting more people to support the then Barisan Nasional (BN) government under the leadership of former prime minister Najib Razak.
Afdlin raised concrete examples of his claim, the counting of ballot papers was done without a representative of the candidates present and the manner in which the counting process was done was not disclosed and the JPP was also alleged to had appointed the former secretary of the Setiawangsa division as the coordinator of the polling station and the husband of one of the candidates for the position of women wing of the division to work in the polling station hall during election day.
Afdlin then warned that all these could be seen as biased as both of them had a direct relationship with the contesting candidates and there was no guarantee of transparency and integrity as they were also members of the party but not neutral.