Prasanna Puwanarajah
Acting
Born: 1981-06-01 · Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
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
🎬 Movies (11)
Finding Emily
2026
Professor Westlake
Malcolm
2023
Joe
National Theatre Live: Dara
2020
Prosecutor Talib
The Baby Shower
2016
The Vote
2015
Tom Baird
The Gunman
2015
Doctor (UCL)
Diana
2013
Martin Bashir
Möbius
2013
Saïd
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
2010
Guildenstern
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
2010
Servant
The Stoning of Soraya M.
2009
Revolutionary Guard
📺 TV Shows (11)
Too Much
2025
Auggie
The Listeners
2024
Paul
Payback
2023
DC Jibran Khan
Ten Percent
2022
Dan Bala
Defending the Guilty
2018
Ashley
Patrick Melrose
2018
Johnny
The Crown
2016
Martin Bashir
You, Me and the Apocalypse
2015
Rajesh
Critical
2015
Dr. Ramakrishna Chandramohan
Silk
2011
Dr Malik
The Sarah Jane Adventures
2007
Car Salesman