MANJINDER VIRK

Named as one of Screen International Magazine’s “Stars of Tomorrow” in 2007, Virk won acclaim last year for her brilliant, heartbreaking performance in BRITZ, the most recent TV drama by Peter Kosminsky.

Born in Coventry, Virk graduated from De Montfort University with a BA (Hons) Performing Arts degree. Since graduating, she has performed in dance, theatre and screen productions including, in the theatre, the award-winning Teatro Biuro Podrozy’s physical theatre show Millennium Mysteries and the lead in Unsuitable Girls after which Eastern Eye newspaper dubbed her as one of the best new actresses in Britain. TV credits include Neil Biswas’ Bradford Riots (Channel 4), which was nominated for best Television Drama at the 2007 South Bank Show Awards.

Alongside her incredible creative talent as a performer, Virk is also a published playwright – both for theatre and radio. Her first commission was a stage play called Glow, which toured nationally with Theatre Centre. She then went on to write and star in Tonight I Write for BBC Radio 4, and in 2004 she wrote and performed her one-woman show, Autobiography of a Face at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith, to great acclaim.

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