Training

Tony Jayawardena trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Theatre

For the National Theatre: Nye (also Wales Millennium Centre), The Father and the Assassin, East is East, London Assurance, All’s Well That Ends Well and England People Very Nice

In London’s West End: Bend It Like Beckham: The Musical

Other theatre includes: The Tempest, The Roaring Girls, The Arden of Faversham, The White Devil, The Empress and Twelfth Night for the RSC; Marjorie Prime at Menier Chocolate Factory; Young Marx at the Bridge; Living Newspaper at the Royal Court; Antigone at Regent’s Park; The Invisible Hand and White Teeth at the Kiln; The Fir Tree, Lions and Tigers and Twelfth Night at Shakespeare’s Globe; Love N Stuff and Cinderella at Stratford East; Great Expectations at Watford Palace; Hobson’s Choice at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; and Jack and the Giant Beanstalk at the Barbican

TV

Avoidance, Ackley Bridge, The Duchess, The Crown, Strike Back, Cuckoo, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Pete vs. Life, Kabadasses and Silent Witness

Film

Doctor Jekyll, A Street Cat Named Bob, The Cook, Trance, The Wedding Video, The Tower Block, Huge, A Bunch of Amateurs and Chasing Liberty

Radio

Silver Street

(Updated February 2024. Photo: Ben Broomfield)