Al Nedjari appeared on Coronation Street from August 1994 to June 1995 as Samir Rachid, the third husband of Deirdre Hunt. The part of Samir was his first role after leaving drama school and he took it with some reluctance, wanting to work in the theatre. Although he has spoken warmly of Anne Kirkbride, William Roache and Dawn Acton, he found some of the other cast members to be remote and impersonal, although he has also stated that by the end of his year on the programme, he better understood their attitudes and the pressures of their jobs. Prior to his drama training, he studied aerospace vehicle design at university and for a time was a secondary school teacher.