Prasanna Puwanarajah

Prasanna Puwanarajah Tamil பரசனன பவனரஜ 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 as more of a hobby than a career choice at the time 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 fulltime actor describing it as more of a strong pull towards something else than a push away from his medical career