Prasanna Puwanarajah (Tamil: பிரசன்னா புவனராஜா; born 1981) is a British actor, director, writer, and former junior medical doctor.
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Early life and education
Puwanarajah was born at Ipswich Hospital in Suffolk to Tamil Sri Lankan parents from Sri Lanka. 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.
He trained in Medicine at New College, Oxford. He worked in the NHS as a hospital junior doctor for a period of 4 years and prior to commencing a training post in reconstructive surgery, Puwanarajah took a year away from medicine. It was during this time he began working as a director, actor and writer.
Personal life
As of 2019, Puwanarajah was living in north-west London.
