Nazrin Choudhury | |
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Born | South London, United Kingdom |
Nationality | British |
Education | BSc Biomedical Science MA Screenwriting |
Alma mater | Streatham and Clapham High School King's College London Northern Film School |
Occupation | Screenwriter, actress, author, playwright |
Style | Drama |
Awards | Richard Imison Award "Mixed Blood" (2006) DNA Films Focus on Talent "Scum" |
Nazrin Choudhury (Bengali: নাসরিন চৌধুরী) is an award winning[1] British screenwriter and actress. She is of Bangladeshi origin.[2]
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Choudhury was born in South London to Bangladeshi immigrant parents. She is the youngest of five children and received a scholarship to attend Streatham and Clapham High School. During her final year at school she took her first steps in her writing career when she was awarded a Literary Travel Scholarship to travel to North America by the Girls' Day School Trust.[3] Between 1994 - 1996 she attended King's College London and read for a BSc in Biomedical Science, graduating with honours. Following her graduation she spent time working as an actress with the Royal Court Youth Theatre (at the Royal Court Theatre) before undertaking a theatre tour of Austria.
Between 2001 - 2003 she attended the Northern Film School to study for an MA in Screenwriting having received a FilmFour Productions/Channel 4 Award.
Choudhury is an established screenwriter who has scripted episodes of popular TV serials such as Casualty, Doctors, EastEnders, and Waterloo Road. She also worked as a storyline writer on Coronation Street. Her critically acclaimed[4] radio play "Mixed Blood"[5] won the Richard Imison Award in 2006. During 2009 she was Series Story Consultant on Bishaash a BBC World Service Trust twenty-four episode television series for Bangladesh. More recently she has been working with the award winning director Menhaj Huda on his new film Everywhere and Nowhere.[6]
In 2006 she was awarded a grant for the arts by the Arts Council England for her first novel "My England".[7] Her first screenplay, "Scum", won the 'Focus on Talent' award, a competition run by DNA Films. She is a member of the Society of Authors Broadcasting Committee and a voting member of BAFTA.
Year | Title | Episode(s) |
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2003-2004 | EastEnders | Episode dated 3 November 2003, Episode dated 18 October 2004 |
2006 | Casualty | A Problem Halved, To Be a Parent |
2009 | Waterloo Road | Episode #4.12 |
2004-2010 | Doctors | No Angel (2004), Great Expectations (2009), Letting Go (2010) |
Year | Title | Character | Episode(s) |
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2001 | Mersey Beat | Pharmacist | Unexploded Bombs |
2002 | Blood Strangers (TV movie) | Air Stewardess | |
2004 | Kismet Road (TV series) | Yasmin Munir | |
2007 | Emmerdale | Nurse Gould | Episode #1.4850, Episode #1.4842 |
2008 | The Royal Today | Maya | Episode #1.32 |