Tahirah Amandla Sharif is a British actress noted mainly for her roles as student Carrie Norton in Waterloo Road in 2015, Rebecca Jessel in the Netflix horror anthology series The Haunting of Bly Manor in 2020, and PC Lizzie Adama in The Tower in 2021 for which she received a Supporting Actress BAFTA nomination.
10 Facts About Tahirah Sharif
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Tahirah Amandla Sharif is a British actress from Brixton, South West London, England born to a Pakistani mother and Jamaican father.
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In 2012, Tahirah 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.
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Tahirah Sharif then appeared in her first feature film, The Invisible Woman as Rosa, starring alongside Ralph Fiennes and Felicity Jones.
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In 2013, Tahirah Sharif was cast as the teenage daughter of Martin Ashford, Ella in the BBC television series Casualty.
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Tahirah Sharif starred in the final ten episodes of long-running school drama, Waterloo Road, as student Carrie Norton in 2015.
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Tahirah Sharif's storylines included the return of her brother, Guy Braxton and her relationship with Lenny Brown.
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Tahirah Sharif went onto play Kile in sci fi short film Pulsar in 2015 alongside Jessie Buckley and David Gyasi.
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In 2017, Tahirah Sharif was cast as Melissa in A Christmas Prince, Netflix's hugely successful foray into holiday films.
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Tahirah Sharif starred as Rebecca Jessel in the Netflix horror anthology series The Haunting of Bly Manor, which was released in October 2020.