Bilal Baig is a Canadian writer and actor, born in 1995 in Mississauga, Ontario. Baig identifies as queer and trans-feminine and uses gender-neutral pronouns they/them.
They are most noted for their play Acha Bacha and television series Sort Of. Acha Bacha, which centers on a non-binary Pakistani-Canadian person struggling to reconcile their gender with their Muslim upbringing, was staged in a joint production by Theatre Passe Muraille and Buddies in Bad Times in 2018.
Baig is the co-creator, co-writer, executive producer and star of Sort Of, a CBC Television dramedy series centering on Sabi Mehoob, a genderfluid character. Baig is the first queer South Asian Muslim actor to lead a Canadian primetime television series. The series premiered on CBC and CBC Gem in October 2021 and was streamed on HBO Max in November 2021.
