[3] So, after freshman year, Nash left Stanford to attend acting school under Anupam Kher at Actor Prepares in Mumbai for six months.

[3][6] Nash trained in theatre at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art[7] and graduated with an MA in 2016.

[citation needed] Prior to acting, he was a cook in a closed door restaurant (puerta cerradas) that he ran out of a hostel in Buenos Aires[5] and conducted bike tours.

[6] He made his feature film debut in Learning to Drive alongside Sir Ben Kingsley and Patricia Clarkson, directed by Spanish director Isabel Coixet.

In 2017, Nash portrayed AMC's The Walking Dead's first male Muslim-American character, Siddiq, in season 8 - 10 of the show.