Tahirah Sharif
Tahirah Amandla Sharif is a British actress noted mainly for her roles as student Carrie Norton in "Waterloo Road" in 2015, and as Rebecca Jessel in the Netflix horror anthology series "The Haunting of Bly Manor" in 2020. Acting education. Tahirah Amandla Sharif is a British actress from South West London, England. Sharif's first taste of acting was in a school play at the age of six. At 16 years of age, 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 Brixton, 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. In 2013, Sharif was cast as the teenage daughter of Martin Ashford (Patrick Robinson), Ella in the BBC television series "Casualty". Ella was billed as "mischievous, a true troublemaker and determined to cause trouble for Ash [father, Martin]". Sharif's first scenes aired on 4 May 2013 and final scenes over a year later, on 17 May 2014. After "Casualty", Sharif reprised her role as Esther Adams in the stage production of "Moon on a Rainbow Shawl" for its UK national tour. Sharif starred in the final ten episodes of long-running school  drama, "Waterloo Road", as student Carrie Norton in 2015. Her storylines included the return of her brother, Guy Braxton (Regé-Jean Page) and her relationship with Lenny Brown (Joe Slater). Sharif went onto play Kile in sci fi short film "Pulsar" in 2015 alongside Jessie Buckley and David Gyasi. The same year, Sharif played Katie in "Firebird" at Hampstead Theatre. The play was so successful that it got transferred to west end theatre Trafalgar Studios in 2016. In 2017, Sharif was cast as Melissa in "A Christmas Prince", Netflix's hugely successful foray into holiday films. There were a further  two films, as the first film proved incredibly popular. "A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding" and "A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby" released on Netflix in 2018 and 2019 respectively. Sharif also starred as Rebecca Jessel in the Netflix horror anthology series "The Haunting of Bly Manor", which was released in October 2020.