- Nazrin Choudhury
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Nazrin Choudhury 
Born South London, United Kingdom Nationality British Education BSc Biomedical Science
MA ScreenwritingAlma mater Streatham and Clapham High School
King's College London
Northern Film SchoolOccupation 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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Education
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.
Career
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.
Filmography
Writer
Year Title Episode(s) 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) Actress
Year Title Character Episode(s) 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 See also
References
- ^ "Richard Imison Prize 2006". The Stage. 4 October 2006. http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/14361/casualty-writer-wins-imison-prize-for-best.
- ^ "Interview with Kirsty Lang on BBC Radio 4's Front Row, Oct 2006". http://www.suttonelms.org.uk/articles26.html.
- ^ http://www.minerva.org.uk/minervaservices/youngalums/scholarships/Pages/default.aspx
- ^ Daoust, Phil (2 November 2005). "Pick of the day". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2005/nov/02/radio.tvandradio.
- ^ http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/mixed_blood.html
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1673374/fullcredits#writers
- ^ http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/media/uploads/review08.pdf
External links
Categories:- British screenwriters
- British television writers
- British soap opera writers
- British women writers
- Living people
- Alumni of King's College London
- Alumni of the Northern Film School
- British people of Bangladeshi descent
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