Prasanna Puwanarajah

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 an interest than a career choice at the time.^[1]

He trained in Medicine at New College, Oxford.^[2] After working as a junior doctor in reconstructive surgery for over three years, Puwanarajah decided to take a year away from medicine. It was during this time he began working as an actor, describing it as "more of a strong pull towards something else" than a "push away from" his medical career.^[3]

As of 2019^[update], Puwanarajah was living in north-west London.^[4]

Film

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
2009	Clamp and Grind	—N/a	Director, writer, producer; short film
2010	London Assurance	Servant	National Theatre Live
	Hamlet	Guildenstern
2011	The Half-Light	—N/a	Director, writer; short film
2012	Boy	—N/a	Director; short film
	Southbank Centre Goes Bollywood	Graham	Short film
2013	Möbius	Saïd
	The Gunman	Doctor
2016	The Complete Walk: Richard III	First Murderer	Short film
	The Baby Shower	Eric	Short film
2020	Dara	Talib	National Theatre Live
2023	Malcolm	Joe
2023	Ballywalter	—N/a	Director[5]

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Television

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	The Sarah Jane Adventures	Car Salesman	Episode: "The Mark of the Berserker: Part 2"
2012	Coming Up	—N/a	Writer, episode: "Spoof or Die"
2012–2014	Silk	Dr Malik	3 episodes
2015	Critical	Ramakrishna Chandramohan	Main role
	The Vote	Tom Baird	Television film
	New Tricks	Sanjeev Da Silva	Episode: "Prodigal Sons"
	You, Me and the Apocalypse	Rajesh McNeil	Miniseries; main role
2016	Cold Feet	Sam Harvey	1 episode
2017	Doctor Foster	James Mohan	Series 2 (4 episodes)[6][7]
2018	Patrick Melrose	Johnny Hall	Miniseries[8]
2018–2019	Defending the Guilty	Ashley Jeevaratnam	Main role
2019	Mum	Kumar	Episode: "Monday"
	World on Fire	Major Taylor	2 episodes
2020	Unprecedented: Real Time Theatre from a State of Isolation	—N/a	Writer; 1 episode
2021	Line of Duty	Haran Nadaraja	Series 6
	Three Families	David Fortress	Part 2
2022	Ten Percent	Dan	8 episodes
2022	The Crown	Martin Bashir	Supporting role (Season 5)
2023	Payback	DC Jibran Khan

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