Priyanga Burford
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Priyanga Burford | |
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| Occupation(s) | Actress, narrator, and writer |
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Tom Burford (m. 1999) |
| Children | 2 |
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.
Career
[edit]Screen
[edit]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]
Stage
[edit]In 2017, she appeared in the premiere production of Consent at the Royal National Theatre, London.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Williams, Zoe (16 February 2015). "Priyanga Burford on Ukip: The First 100 Days". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
- ^ "ITV announce a second series of hit series, Innocent". ITalkTelly. 21 September 2020.
- ^ "Steeltown Murders cast and creatives discuss the responsibility of telling a true-life story about the hunt to catch the killer of three young women". BBC Home. 10 May 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2024.
- ^ "Light from darkness, after 30 years: talking to the cast of real-crime drama 'Steeltown Murders'". SBS What's On. 20 November 2024. Retrieved 29 November 2024.
- ^ "Consent". National Theatre. 4 November 2016. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
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