Priyanga Burford

Burford's screen acting credits include roles in No Time to Die, A Long Way Down, A Rather English Marriage, The Thick of It, Silent Witness, and Casualty. In 2015, she starred in the Channel 4 mockumentary UKIP: The First 100 Days in which she played the fictional Deepa Kaur, the first Asian woman to be elected as a UK Independence Party Member of Parliament.^[1] In 2017, she appeared in King Charles III, a future history television film adapted by Mike Bartlett from his play of the same name. She plays Mrs Stevens, Leader of the Opposition.^{[citation needed]} In 2021, she starred in the second season of the ITV crime drama Innocent.^[2] She played Sita Anwar in the 2023 four-part BBC series Steeltown Murders, which dramatises a true crime story of the cold case investigation into a serial killer in Port Talbot, Wales, in the 1970s.^[3][4]

In 2017, she appeared in the premiere production of Consent at the Royal National Theatre, London.^[5]

• Priyanga Burford at IMDb