Maanuv Thiara
Birthday: Born in in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
Maanuv is an award winning actor and creative. He grew up in the West Midlands, before attending Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, graduating in 2016. Since then, as an actor he has worked consistently across all mediums. Recent screen credits include; LANDSCAPERS (HBO), LINE OF DUTY (BBC), TED LASSO (Apple), Varsity (Apple) and DI RAY (ITV), for which he was nominated for an RTS Midlands Award for Best Actor. Recent stage credits include THE FATHER AND THE ASSASSIN (National Theatre) and THE CHERRY ORCHARD (ETT). As a writer, he won the National Theatre’s “New Views” Competition, culminating in his play, 8 WEEKS, being produced at The SHED, he is an Associate Artist of RIFCO Theatre Company and his short film, “BAMBINO” was produced by Bigger Pictures Productions.
TV Credits
Ted Lasso
Character: Terrence
Ted Lasso, an American football coach, moves to England when he's hired to manage a soccer team—despite having no experience. With cynical players and a doubtful town, will he get them to see the Ted Lasso Way?...
Casualty
Character: Chauncey Myer
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives....
DI Ray
Character: PS Tony Khatri
DI Ray is set in Birmingham and follows Leicester-born Rachita Ray, a police officer who takes on a case that forces her to confront a lifelong personal conflict between her British identity and her South Asian heritage....
Brassic
Character: Reggie the photographer
A group of working-class friends finding unconventional ways to win at life in suburban northern England. These lads have dealt, scammed, bribed and conned their way through adolescence, but now, their dealing and stealing is catching up with them and a whole load of trouble is heading their way....
Landscapers
Character: DC MacBride
A seemingly ordinary British couple become the focus of an extraordinary investigation when two dead bodies are discovered in the back garden of a house in Nottingham....
Generation Z
Character: Malcolm
Flesh-eating baby-boomers get a taste for teenagers in Ben Wheatley's darkly comic, outlandishly gory, zombie-horror satire....
Prime Target
Character: Dr Charan Nathoo
A brilliant math student is on the verge of a major breakthrough when a shadowy enemy tries to stop him. Fighting for answers—and his life—he teams up with a government agent to unravel a high-stakes conspiracy....
Trigger Point
Character: DI Amar Batra
For London's bomb disposal experts, no day is ever the same as they risk their lives protecting the city from harm....
Line of Duty
Character: Vihaan Malhotra
A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit....
Movie Credits
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Character: Mick the Blogger
Harold Fry is an unremarkable man who has made mistakes with all the important things: being a husband, a father and a friend. And now, well into his 60s, he is content to fade quietly into the background of life. Until, one day – Harold learns his old friend Queenie is dying. Harold leaves home, walking to his post office to send her a letter. And out of the blue, Harold decides to keep walking, all the way to her hospice, 450 miles away....
Hamlet
Character: Marcellus
Hamlet captures the Almeida Theatre's 2017 acclaimed production of William Shakespeare's great play, recorded as-live in its West End transfer on the stage of London's Harold Pinter Theatre. Robert Icke's innovative modern-dress production, featuring Andrew Scott, Juliet Stevenson, Angus Wright and Jessica Brown Findlay, has been widely acclaimed as a dazzlingly intelligent, forcefully contemporary staging. The Evening Standard hailed Andrew Scott's 'career-defining performance... he makes the ...
Dirty Talk
Character: Vin
Spurred by the excitement of making a baby, a mixed-race couple's dirty talk delves into uncomfortable racial territory, leaving the man struggling to finish as they grapple with the boundaries of desire and identity....