Maanuv Thiara

Acting

Maanuv Thiara

Place of birth

Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

13 titles

Maanuv is an award winning actor and creative. He grew up in the West Midlands, before attending Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, graduating in 2016. Since then, as an actor he has worked consistently across all mediums. Recent screen credits include; LANDSCAPERS (HBO), LINE OF DUTY (BBC), TED LASSO (Apple), Varsity (Apple) and DI RAY (ITV), for which he was nominated for an RTS Midlands Award for Best Actor. Recent stage credits include THE FATHER AND THE ASSASSIN (National Theatre) and THE CHERRY ORCHARD (ETT). As a writer, he won the National Theatre’s “New Views” Competition, culminating in his play, 8 WEEKS, being produced at The SHED, he is an Associate Artist of RIFCO Theatre Company a…

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Film credits

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Ted Lasso poster
8.4

Ted Lasso, an American football coach, moves to England when he's hired to manage a soccer team—despite having no experience. With cynical players and a doubtful town, will he get them to see the Ted Lasso Way?

Ted Lasso

2020

Casualty poster
6.2

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.

Casualty

1986

Line of Duty poster
8.2

A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.

Line of Duty

2012

Brassic poster
8.3

A group of working-class friends finding unconventional ways to win at life in suburban northern England. These lads have dealt, scammed, bribed and conned their way through adolescence, but now, their dealing and stealing is catching up with them and a whole load of trouble is heading their way.

Brassic

2019

Prime Target poster
6.7

A brilliant math student is on the verge of a major breakthrough when a shadowy enemy tries to stop him. Fighting for answers—and his life—he teams up with a government agent to unravel a high-stakes conspiracy.

Prime Target

2025

Trigger Point poster
6.9

For London's bomb disposal experts, no day is ever the same as they risk their lives protecting the city from harm.

Trigger Point

2022

Under Salt Marsh poster
6.6

Morfa Halen is a tight-knit Welsh town precariously nestled between towering mountains and a fast-encroaching sea that threatens its very existence. As a once-in-a-generation storm begins to gather far out at sea, former detective turned teacher Jackie Ellis discovers the body of her 8-year-old pupil, Cefin, seemingly drowned. The discovery sends shockwaves through the community, reviving the ghost of an unsolved cold case that rocked the town three years prior - the disappearance of Jackie’s niece, Nessa, which cost her career.

Under Salt Marsh

2026

DI Ray poster
6.9

DI Ray is set in Birmingham and follows Leicester-born Rachita Ray, a police officer who takes on a case that forces her to confront a lifelong personal conflict between her British identity and her South Asian heritage.

DI Ray

2022

Landscapers poster
6.8

A seemingly ordinary British couple become the focus of an extraordinary investigation when two dead bodies are discovered in the back garden of a house in Nottingham.

Landscapers

2021

Generation Z poster
5.4

Flesh-eating baby-boomers get a taste for teenagers in Ben Wheatley's darkly comic, outlandishly gory, zombie-horror satire.

Generation Z

2024