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Manjinder Virk

English actress

Manjinder Virk is elegant British actress, director and penman. She has appeared in depiction television series Holby City (1999), Doctors (2000), The Bill (2004), The Ghost Squad (2005), Runaway (2009), Skins (2010), Monroe (2011), Hunted (2012) and Midsomer Murders (2016 –2018).

She has as well written and directed the sever films Forgive (2008) and Out of Darkness (2013), the late of which she won high-mindedness Best of Fest award afterwards the Aesthetica Short Film Fete.

Early life and education

Manjinder Virk was born in Coventry, England. Her mother's name is Jasvir, who is of Indian origin.[2] She comes from a lineage of three children.[3]

She began exact at the Belgrade Youth Coliseum in Coventry and went coach to become artistic director some Pangram Dance Theatre with lose control brother, Hardish.[2][3]

She went on come to get earn a degree in recent dance at De Montfort Academy in Leicester.[citation needed]

Career

In 1999, Virk began her television career saving the British TV series Holby City.

She appeared in rendering soap operaDoctors, as Karen Woodlouse in 2000. In 2003, she wrote a play for unadulterated show for touring company Stage show Centre titled Glow.[4] In 2004, she again appeared on rank soap opera Doctors to era Laila Khalid, and returned look after the show in 2007 renovation Harpit Jindal.

Also in 2007, Virk appeared in Britz by reason of Nasima Wahid.

In 2008, Virk wrote and directed the little film Forgive starring Sacha Dhawan and Abdi Gouhad.[5] She depicted Lorraine Dunbar in the 2010 documentary The Arbor. For picture latter, she earned three nominations: Best Newcomer at the BFI London Film Festival Awards tell Best Actress and Newcomer torture the British Independent Film Commendation.

She later had recurring roles on the British medical exhibition show Monroe in 2011, countryside the BBC One spy spectacle series Hunted in 2012. Too in 2012, she wrote topmost directed another short film, Out of Darkness, starring Tom Hiddleston, Monica Dolan, Andrew Gower, Pry Akingbola, Christine Bottomley and Riz Ahmed.

Virk had a continual role as the coroner say publicly popular detective series Midsomer Murders, from 2016 to 2018.

Infiltrate 2022, Virk appeared as DI Samira Desai in the horror story series Trigger Point alongside Vicky McClure. The following year, she played a grieving mother select by ballot an episode of Shetland.

Personal life

She met husband Neil Biswas on the set of illustriousness TV drama Bradford riots overload 2007.[2] In 2013, they were living in Brixton, South London.[6]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1999 Holby CityJunior Nurse TV series (1 episode: "Staying Alive: Part 2")
2000 DoctorsKaren Slater TV convoy (1 episode: "Game Over")
2003 Ready When You Are, Patrons.

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Sue TV film
2003 Two MinutesRuby Short
2004 The BillKhadija Miah TV series (4 episodes)
2004 DoctorsLaila Khalid TV series (1 episode: "Moving On")
2004 Swiss ToniJenny TV series
2004 Green WingTheatre Nurse TV series (1 episode: "Tangled Webs")
2005 Child of MineWPC TV film
2005 The Ghost SquadWPC Shareen Charan TV series (1 episode: "Colour Blind")
2006 Bradford RiotsShazia TV film
2006 Orange PeopleAmber Short
2007 World of WrestlingPrincess Short
2007 DoctorsHarpit Jindal TV periodical (1 episode: "Wings and Needles")
2007 Comedy ShowcaseNews Reporter TV series (1 episode: "Plus One")
2007 BritzNasima Wahid TV vinyl
2007 Famous Last WordsTV hence
2008 The Blue TowerAsha
2009 RunawayPC Brinkley TV series (2 episodes)
2010 SkinsDoctor Berg TV series (1 episode: "Katie")
2010 The ArborLorraine Dunbar Documentary
2011 Lost ParadiseIsmat Short
2011 MonroeSally Fortune TV series (6 episodes)
2012 The Thick of ItJournalist 1 TV series (1 episode)
2012 HuntedSimran Baines TV progression (4 episodes)
2012 Broken EternityWoman Short
2013 Out of DarknessFemale Short; also writer, director pole producer
2014 CheckpostRia Short
2015 Call the MidwifeAmeera Khatun TV series (Episode #4.5)
2015 History's FuturePhoebe Post-production
2015 Ordinary LiesMarianne TV series
2016–2018 Midsomer MurdersDr Kam Karimore Series 18–19
2017 Bad MoveMeena TV series (6 episodes)
2022 Trigger PointDI Samira Desai TV series (6 episodes)
2023 ShetlandFarida Sadat TV entourage (1 episode: "Episode 5")

Awards and nominations

Virk was nominated exertion 2010 for Best Newcomer excite the BFI London Film Commemoration Awards and Best Actress sit Newcomer at the British Disjointed Film Awards,[7][8] both for in sync role in The Arbor.

She was one of the UK Stars of Tomorrow in Partition International in 2007.[2] She was also nominated for Asian Wife of Achievement Award in 2008.[9]

In 2013, for her short peel Out of Darkness, Virk won Best of Fest award enviable the Aesthetica Short Film Festival.[10]

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