Priyanga Burford
British actress
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Priyanga Burford is an English actress, narrator, and writer. She is known for her TV work in UKIP: The First 100 Days (2015), Innocent (2017), and Steeltown Murders (2023). She has also performed on stage, including in the premiere production of Consent at the Royal National Theatre in 2017.
Priyanga Burford | |
|---|---|
| Occupations | Actress, narrator, and writer |
| Spouse |
Tom Burford (m. 1999) |
| Children | 2 |
Career
Film and television
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]
Theatre
In 2017, she appeared in the premiere production of Consent at the Royal National Theatre, London.[5]
Videogames
In 2026, she made her videogame performance debut as M in 007 First Light.[6]
