Prasanna Puwanarajah
Acting
22
Acting Credits
1
Directed
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...
Known For
Filmography
Finding Emily
2026
as Professor Westlake
Too Much
2025
as Auggie
The Listeners
2024
as Paul
Malcolm
2023
as Joe
Payback
2023
as DC Jibran Khan
Ten Percent
2022
as Dan Bala
National Theatre Live: Dara
2020
as Prosecutor Talib
Patrick Melrose
2018
as Johnny
Defending the Guilty
2018
as Ashley
The Baby Shower
2016
The Crown
2016
as Martin Bashir
The Vote
2015
as Tom Baird
The Gunman
2015
as Doctor (UCL)
Critical
2015
as Dr. Ramakrishna Chandramohan
You, Me and the Apocalypse
2015
as Rajesh
Möbius
2013
as Saïd
Diana
2013
as Martin Bashir
Silk
2011
as Dr Malik
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
2010
as Servant
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
2010
as Guildenstern
The Stoning of Soraya M.
2009
as Revolutionary Guard
The Sarah Jane Adventures
2007
as Car Salesman