Prasanna Puwanarajah (Tamil: \u0baa\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0b9a\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0ba9\u0bbe \u0baa\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0ba9\u0bb0\u0bbe\u0b9c\u0bbe; born 1981) is a British actor, director, writer, and former junior medical doctor.<\/p>\n
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 as more of a hobby than a career choice at the time.<\/p>\n
He trained in Medicine at New College, Oxford. After working as a junior doctor in reconstructive surgery for over three years, Puwanarajah decided to take a year out. It was during this time he decided to become a full-time actor, describing it as “more of a strong pull towards something else” than a “push away from” his medical career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prasanna Puwanarajah (Tamil: \u0baa\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0b9a\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0ba9\u0bbe \u0baa\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0ba9\u0bb0\u0bbe\u0b9c\u0bbe; 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-767","movie_engine_person","type-movie_engine_person","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n