Tahirah Sharif

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. Acting education Tahirah Amandla Sharif is a British actress from Brixton, South West London, England born to a Pakistani mother and Jamaican father. Sharif's first acting role was in a school play at the age of six. Aged 16, Sharif joined the Brit School for Performing Arts & Technology in Croydon, London. Later continuing her acting education attending evening classes at the Identity School of Acting in London. Career One of Sharif's first roles was in Film 4 short See Me as the lead. In 2012, 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. In the same year Sharif played Esther Adams in the stage production of Moon on a Rainbow Shawl at The National Theatre and as Dunyazade in the stage production of Arabian Nights at the Tricycle Theatre. Sharif then appeared in her first feature film, The Invisible Woman as Rosa, starring alongside Ralph Fiennes and Felicity Jones.