Personal Info
Prasanna Puwanarajah
Acting
Biography
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…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Malcolm
as Joe
National Theatre Live: Dara
as Prosecutor Talib
The Baby Shower
The Gunman
as Doctor (UCL)
The Vote
as Tom Baird
Diana
as Martin Bashir
Möbius
as Saïd
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
as Servant
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
as Guildenstern
The Stoning of Soraya M.
as Revolutionary Guard
TV Shows
Too Much
as Auggie · 10 ep.
The Listeners
as Paul · 4 ep.
Payback
as DC Jibran Khan · 6 ep.
Ten Percent
as Dan Bala · 8 ep.
Patrick Melrose
as Johnny · 4 ep.
Defending the Guilty
as Ashley · 6 ep.
The Crown
as Martin Bashir · 2 ep.
You, Me and the Apocalypse
as Rajesh · 5 ep.
Critical
as Dr. Ramakrishna Chandramohan · 13 ep.
Silk
as Dr Malik · 3 ep.