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Prasanna Puwanarajah
Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
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 Suf…
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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.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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2026
Finding Emily
Movie Professor Westlake
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2025
Too Much
TV show Auggie
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2024
The Listeners
TV show Paul
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2024
Breathtaking
TV show Writer
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2023
Payback
TV show DC Jibran Khan
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2023
Ballywalter
Movie Director
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2023
Malcolm
Movie Joe
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2022
Ten Percent
TV show Dan Bala
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2020
National Theatre Live: Dara
Movie Prosecutor Talib
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2018
Defending the Guilty
TV show Ashley
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2018
Patrick Melrose
TV show Johnny
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2016
The Crown
TV show Martin Bashir
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2016
The Baby Shower
Movie
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2015
You, Me and the Apocalypse
TV show Rajesh
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2015
The Vote
Movie Tom Baird
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2015
Critical
TV show Dr. Ramakrishna Chandramohan
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2015
The Gunman
Movie Doctor (UCL)
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2013
Diana
Movie Martin Bashir
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2013
Möbius
Movie Saïd
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2012
Boy
Movie Writer
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2011
Silk
TV show Dr Malik
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2010
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
Movie Guildenstern
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2010
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
Movie Servant
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2009
The Stoning of Soraya M.
Movie Revolutionary Guard
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2007
The Sarah Jane Adventures
TV show Car Salesman
