Tahirah Sharif

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Tahirah Sharif
Sharif in 2020
Born
Tahirah Amandla Sharif

London, England
OccupationActress
Years active2010–present

Tahirah Amandla Sharif is a British actress noted mainly for her roles as student Carrie Norton in

BAFTA
nomination.

Acting education

Tahirah Amandla Sharif is a British actress from

Brit School for Performing Arts & Technology in Croydon, London. Later continuing her acting education attending evening classes at the Identity School of Acting in London.[1]

Career

One of Sharif's first roles was in

Film 4 short See Me as the lead.[2]

In 2012, Sharif appeared in each episode of the

Tricycle Theatre. Sharif then appeared in her first feature film, The Invisible Woman as Rosa, starring alongside Ralph Fiennes and Felicity Jones.[2]

In 2013, Sharif was cast as the teenage daughter of

Ella in the BBC television series Casualty. Ella was billed as "mischievous, a true troublemaker and determined to cause trouble for Ash [father, Martin]". Sharif's first scenes aired on 4 May 2013[3] and final scenes over a year later, on 17 May 2014.[4]

After Casualty, Sharif reprised her role as Esther Adams in the stage production of Moon on a Rainbow Shawl for its UK national tour.[2]

Sharif starred in the final ten episodes of long-running school drama,

Lenny Brown (Joe Slater). Sharif went onto play Kile in sci fi short film Pulsar in 2015 alongside Jessie Buckley and David Gyasi
. The same year, Sharif played Katie in Firebird at
Trafalgar Studios in 2016.[2]

In 2017, Sharif was cast as Melissa in A Christmas Prince, Netflix's hugely successful foray into holiday films. There were a further two films, as the first film proved incredibly popular. A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding and A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby released on Netflix in 2018 and 2019 respectively.[2]

Sharif also starred as Rebecca Jessel in the Netflix horror anthology series The Haunting of Bly Manor, which was released in October 2020.[2]

Filmography

Film

Year Film Role Notes
2010 Assessment Rachel Short film
See Me Alicia
2012 Stop Nikki
2013 The Invisible Woman Rosa
2015 Pulsar Kile Short film
2017 A Christmas Prince Melissa
2018 Beautified Belle Short film
A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding Melissa
2019 A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby
TBA The Kindred Sue Post-production
Escape the Field

Television

Year Programme Role Notes
2011 Casualty Shelley King 1 episode:
Secrets and Lies
Doctors Aaliyah Clarke 1 episode
2012 One Night Madison Series regular
Whitechapel Chantal Essian 1 episode: series 3, episode 6
2013–2014 Casualty
Ella Ashford
 Recurring role
2015 Waterloo Road Carrie Norton Series regular (10 episodes)
2020 The First Team Elle 1 episode
The Haunting of Bly Manor Rebecca Jessel Series regular (9 episodes)
2021 The Tower PC Lizzie Adama Main Cast[5]
2023 A Town Called Malice Cindy Carter Main Cast

Theatre

Year Title Role Venue
2012 Crawling in the Dark Amber Almeida Theatre
Moon on a Rainbow Shawl Esther Adams The National Theatre
Arabian Nights Dunyazade
Tricycle Theatre
2014 Moon on a Rainbow Shawl Esther Adams Various
2015 Firebird Katie Hampstead Theatre
2016
Trafalgar Studios
2018 Orange Polar Bear Sarah / Mother National Theatre Company Korea /
Birmingham Rep

References

  1. ^ "Women in Motion: Tahirah Sharif". thenoemimagazine.com. 20 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Tahirah Sharif Spotlight". spotlight.com. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  3. ^ "casualty - The Morning After - Series 27 Episode 34 of 44". bbc.co.uk. 4 May 2014.
  4. ^ "BBC One - Casualty, Series 28, Games for the Boys".
  5. ^ "Emmett J. Scanlan, Tahirah Sharif and Jimmy Akingbola join the cast of ITV crime thriller, The Tower". itv.com/presscentre. Retrieved 31 October 2021.

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