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Tahirah Amandla Sharif is a British actress noted mainly for her roles as student Carrie Norton in Waterloo Road in 2015, and as Rebecca Jessel in the Netflix horror anthology series The Haunting of Bly Manor in 2020.

Tahirah Sharif
Sharif in 2017
Born	Tahirah Amandla Sharif London, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2010–present

Acting education

Tahirah Amandla Sharif is a British actress from South West London, England. Sharif's first taste of acting was in a school play at the age of six.[1] At 16 years of age, Sharif joined the Brit School for Performing Arts & Technology in Croydon, London.[1] Later continuing her acting education attending evening classes at the Identity School of Acting in Brixton, 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 BBC drama, One Night as Madison as well as appearing in the second series of ITV drama Whitechapel as Chantal Essian. In the same year Sharif played Esther Adams in the stage production of Moon on a Rainbow Shawl at The National Theatre and as Dunyazade in the stage production of Arabian Nights at the Tricycle Theatre.[2] 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 Martin Ashford (Patrick Robinson), 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, Waterloo Road, as student Carrie Norton in 2015. Her storylines included the return of her brother, Guy Braxton (Regé-Jean Page) and her relationship with 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 Hampstead Theatre. The play was so successful that it got transferred to west end theatre 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]

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

External links

• Tahirah Sharif at IMDb

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