People
Prasanna Puwanarajah
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. After working as a junior doctor in reconstructive surgery for... Read More
Movies:
| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| Malcolm as Joe | 2023-07-14 |
| National Theatre Live: Dara as Prosecutor Talib | 2020-12-01 |
| The Baby Shower | 2016-09-02 |
| The Vote as Tom Baird | 2015-05-07 |
| The Gunman as Doctor (UCL) | 2015-02-16 |
| Diana as Martin Bashir | 2013-09-19 |
| Möbius as Saïd | 2013-02-17 |
| National Theatre Live: Hamlet as Guildenstern | 2010-12-09 |
| National Theatre Live: London Assurance as Servant | 2010-06-24 |
| The Stoning of Soraya M. as Revolutionary Guard | 2009-06-26 |
