Ameer Gilani is a Pakistani actor and singer who is best known for his portrayal of Hassan Fareed in Hum TV's Sabaat (2020), for which he received a nomination for Best Emerging Talent at the 20th Lux Style Awards.
Gilani's paternal grandfather Syed Iftikhar Hussain Gillani is a lawyer who served as the country's law minister under Benazir Bhutto in 1989âÂÂ1990. Musarrat Nazir, a famed singer and actress active from the 1950s to the 1990s, is Iftikhar's sister-in-law.
In 2022, Gilani completed his Master of Laws (LLM) at Harvard Law School.
Gilani portrayed the role of an upper class university student in Shahzad Kashmiri's Sabaat opposite Mawra Hocane. The series aired on Hum TV in 2020 and he was nominated at 20th Lux Style Awards for his performance in the category of Best Emerging Talent in TV. In 2021, he appeared in a Defence Day's special music video by Atif Aslam. In 2023, he paired again with Hocane in Shahzad Kashmiri's TV series Neem.
In 2020, Gilani released the song "Sabaat", titled after his drama, on his YouTube channel, with the music produced by Sarmad Ghafoor and the music video directed by Usman Mukhtar.
Gilani met actress Mawra Hocane on the sets of Sabaat in 2020. On 5 February 2025, they were married in a traditional Muslim wedding in Lahore.