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Rudi has completed shooting the lead role in Wakefield, a new 8 part series for ABC, directed by Jocelyn Moorehouse for which he received an AACTA Best Leading Actor Nomination. He has also recently completed Role Play for Amazon, The Lazarus Project for Sky by Joe Barton, The Split season 3 by Abi Morgan and Great Expectations for Disney and BBC, produced by Ridley Scott and Tom Hardy. Most recently he completed The Collaborator playing the lead role of Kadian.

He grew up in Maidstone, Kent, attending Vinters Boys School and Invicta Grammar School. He then joined the National Youth Theatre. He was a former county table tennis player.

He has since performed in numerous productions at the National Theatre. In 2013 he played the male lead in David Greig's two-hander, The Events for the Young Vic. The Play won numerous awards and was voted The Guardian's best play of 2013.

He has since performed in plays at the Royal court and the Almeida Theatre. Notably Oresteia and Mary Stuart, the later of which was directed by Olivier Award winner Robert Icke. He played the male lead role of Mortimer alongside Juliet Stevenson and Lia Williams. Both Oresteia and Mary Stuart both opened to huge critical acclaim.

He performed in the record breaking production of Hamlet at the Barbican in 2015 playing Guilderstern alongside Benedict Cumberbatch.

Theatre: 2004 - appeared in The History Boys by Alan Bennett, at the National Theatre (Lyttelton), London. Directed by Nicholas Hytner.

Theatre: played &quot;Fazal Mansoor&quot; in &quot;Playing With Fire&quot; by <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0249201/?ref_=nmwrk">David Edgar</a> at the National Theatre (Olivier), London (September-October 2005). Directed by &#39;Attenborough, Michael&#39; .

(April 2006) Played Crowther in &quot;The History Boys&quot; play by Alan Bennett (Broadhurst Theater, New York City, New York, USA).

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Rudi Dharmalingam

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