Prasanna Puwanarajah
Acting
Born 1981-06-01
Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
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Prasanna Puwanarajah (Tamil: பிரசன்னா புவனராஜா; born 1981) is a British actor, director, writer, and former junior medical doctor.
Puwanarajah was born at Ipswich Hospital in Suffolk to Tamil Sri Lankan parents from Sri Lanka, his mother a psychiatrist and his father a dentist. He spent his early childhood on Churchill Avenue in Ipswich before the family moved to Hampshire when he was four. He participated in school plays and spent a season with the National Youth Theatre, but thought of acting as more of a hobby than a career choice at the time.
He trained in Medicine at New College, Oxford. After working as a junior doctor in reconstructive surgery for over three years, Puwanarajah decided to take a year out. It was during this time he decided to become a full-time actor, describing it as "more of a strong pull towards something else" than a "push away from" his medical career.
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Filmography
Acting
21 credits
The Crown
Silk
The Sarah Jane Adventures
Patrick Melrose
Too Much
Finding Emily
The Gunman
You, Me and the Apocalypse
Critical
Payback
Ten Percent
The Listeners
Diana
Möbius
Defending the Guilty
The Stoning of Soraya M.
Malcolm
National Theatre Live: Dara
The Vote
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
Writing
2 credits
Directing
1 credit
Other credits
1 credit
Producing
1 credit
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