Priyanga Burford
{{Short description|British actress}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2017}}
{{BLP sources|date=September 2020}}
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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
= Screen =
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.{{cite news|first=Zoe |last=Williams |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/feb/16/priyanga-burford-ukip-the-first-100-days-mockumentary |title=Priyanga Burford on Ukip: The First 100 Days |newspaper=The Guardian |date=16 February 2015 |accessdate=21 July 2015}}
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.{{cn|date=November 2024}}
In 2021, she starred in the second season of the ITV crime drama Innocent.{{Cite news |url=https://www.italktelly.com/post/itv-announce-a-second-series-of-hit-series-innocent|title=ITV announce a second series of hit series, Innocent|work=ITalkTelly|date=21 September 2020}}
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.{{cite web |title=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 |website=BBC Home |date=10 May 2023 |url=https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/mediapacks/steeltown-murders-cast |access-date=29 November 2024}}{{cite web |title=Light from darkness, after 30 years: talking to the cast of real-crime drama ‘Steeltown Murders’ |website=SBS What's On |date=20 November 2024 |url=https://www.sbs.com.au/whats-on/article/steeltown-murders-light-from-darkness-interviews-cast-directors/boffxvhqu |access-date=29 November 2024}}
=Stage =
In 2017, she appeared in the premiere production of Consent at the Royal National Theatre, London.{{cite web |url=https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/consent |title=Consent |website=National Theatre |date=4 November 2016 |access-date=8 April 2017}}
References
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External links
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Category:British film actresses
Category:British Asian writers
Category:British television actresses
Category:20th-century British writers
Category:English people of Sri Lankan descent
Category:20th-century British actresses
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:20th-century British women writers
Category:21st-century British actresses
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
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