Manjinder Virk

Manjinder Virk


in Coventry, England, UK
Manjinder Virk is an English actress, director and writer. She has appeared in the television series Holby City (1999), Doctors (2000), The Bill (2004), The Ghost Squad (2005), Runaway (2009), Skins (2010), Monroe (2011), Hunted (2012) and Midsomer Murders (2016 –2018).

She has also written and directed the short films Forgive (2008) and Out of Darkness (2013), the latter of which she won Best of Fest award at the Aesthetica Short Film Festival.

Movies for Manjinder Virk...

Midsomer Murders: 25 Years of Mayhem
Title: Midsomer Murders: 25 Years of Mayhem
Character: Self
Released: May 29, 2022
Type: Movie
This documentary explores the enduring popularity of one of Britain's best loved crime dramas, Midsomer Murders, as it celebrates its 25th anniversary.
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Title: Trigger Point
Character: DI Samira Desai
Released: January 23, 2022
Type: TV
For London's bomb disposal experts, no day is ever the same as they risk their lives protecting the city from harm.
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Title: The Beast Must Die
Character: Liz Jerwood
Released: May 27, 2021
Type: TV
Following the death of her son in a hit and run, all Frances Cairnes wants is to hunt down and kill the man she believes is responsible. When she finally tracks him down, she tricks her way into his house and plots his murder from within.
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Title: Breeders
Character: Dr. Webb
Released: March 2, 2020
Type: TV
Exposing the parental-paradox that it is possible, in the very same moment, to love your child to the horizon of the universe, while being apoplectically angry enough to want to send them there.
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Title: Sick of It
Character: Mrs. Sharma
Released: September 27, 2018
Type: TV
A middle-aged man recently ditched by his long-term girlfriend, ‘Karl’ lives with his elderly Auntie and his closest companion is his doppelgänger alter ego.
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Kaleidoscope
Title: Kaleidoscope
Character: Officer Torrington
Released: November 10, 2017
Type: Movie
A psychological thriller about the destructive relationship between a middle-aged man and his mother.
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Title: Bad Move
Character: Meena
Released: September 19, 2017
Type: TV
Steve and Nicky are both on their second marriages and have decided that moving to the countryside from the city is the answer to all their dreams. They've watched all the TV relocation shows and read the glossy lifestyle magazines and fell in love with the idea of 'getting away from the rat race'.
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Title: Trust Me
Character: Dr. Parveen Shanker
Released: August 8, 2017
Type: TV
A series of gripping thrillers that expose the dark side of the people we trust to care for us - doctors.
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The Sense of an Ending
Title: The Sense of an Ending
Character: Medical Staff
Released: March 10, 2017
Type: Movie
A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.
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With Love From Calais
Title: With Love From Calais
Character: Gurjeet
Released: February 23, 2017
Type: Movie
Based on real life stories, 'With Love from Calais' is about a British woman who goes to volunteer at the camp. After witnessing life there, she is unable to let go of that experience and continue her previous life.
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History's Future
Title: History's Future
Character: Phoebe
Released: January 28, 2016
Type: Movie
Losing his memory after a mugging, a man known only as 'MP' (Missing Person) leaves his home and sets out on a journey - in search not only for his memory but perhaps also for a new identity. MP finds himself confronted by a world in which there are no longer any certainties; an era of crisis on many levels. On his travels from country to country, portrayed via an associative image montage and through a series of strange, illuminating, sometimes comic encounters, MP attempts to gain insight into the complexity of life in the 21st-century West - into what commentators have called an age of 'rolling catastrophe'.
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Brilliantman!
Title: Brilliantman!
Character: Jogger
Released: September 24, 2015
Type: Movie
Ian Hedge is a very ordinary man who sees himself as a secret super hero with a mission to protect the distressed and vulnerable. Single and living in a rented room with his sour-tempered landlady Mrs Wardle, Ian works 'undercover' as a council worker and spends the days walking the streets of the city in a high viz jacket holding a trundle wheel, with his costume ready to go in his backpack.
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Title: Ordinary Lies
Character: Marianne
Released: March 17, 2015
Type: TV
Exploring what happens when a bunch of white lies spiral out of control and the effect it has on an ordinary group of colleagues and friends.
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Out of Darkness
Title: Out of Darkness
Released: October 8, 2013
Type: Movie
A unique story told by nine different actors which explores the haunting of a conscience by lost souls that won't let go.
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Title: Hunted
Character: Simran Bains
Released: October 4, 2012
Type: TV
Samantha Hunter suspects someone within the private intelligence agency she works at tried to kill her and she seeks to uncover the person behind it.
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Title: Call the Midwife
Character: Ameera Khatun
Released: January 15, 2012
Type: TV
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
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Title: Monroe
Character: Sally Fortune
Released: March 10, 2011
Type: TV
Monroe is a brilliant and unusual neurosurgeon. A flawed genius who never lets anyone forget his flaws or his genius. Each episode will feature one compelling story of the week about life or death situations. The drama will focus on the way in which a serious injury or disease cuts across the lives of everyone involved, from hospital staff to patients to relatives. And how that group become, in an intense few days, a reluctant dysfunctional family united by hopes, fears and grief. At the centre of this stands Monroe, his trainees, his anaesthetist and his poker school - and his female colleague, heart surgeon, Jenny Bremner, who has contempt for his cockiness. The series will tell heightened emotional stories and be shot through with dark humour and portray the pressures and pleasures of high-end surgery in a modern urban hospital.
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The Arbor
Title: The Arbor
Character: Lorraine Dunbar
Released: October 22, 2010
Type: Movie
The lives of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar and Lorraine, one of her daughters, and the community of Bradford, in the 30 years since the 18-year-old Andrea penned a play about growing up in the community titled "The Arbor".
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Title: Moving On
Character: Alice
Released: May 18, 2009
Type: TV
Moving On is a British television series set in contemporary Britain consisting of standalone dramas all sharing the theme of someone going through some kind of change in their life and moving on.
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The Blue Tower
Title: The Blue Tower
Character: Asha
Released: October 2, 2008
Type: Movie
Dark thriller about a young British man of Indian origin who finds himself trapped in a loveless marriage. Unemployed, he spends his days driving his car, hanging out with a motley crew of listless friends and visiting his wealthy old aunt's house - where he eventually starts an illicit affair with the aunt's young care worker. As hopes of a job and of improvement in his personal circumstances recede further, he resolves to take drastic measures to change the course of his life.
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Britz
Title: Britz
Character: Nasima Wahid
Released: November 5, 2007
Type: Movie
Sohail is an ambitious law undergraduate who signs up with MI5 and, eager to play a part in protecting British security, begins an investigation into a terrorist cell. His sister Nasima is a medical student in Leeds who becomes increasingly alienated and angered by Britain's foreign and domestic policy after witnessing at first hand the relentless targeting of her Muslim neighbours and peers. With action set in Pakistan, Eastern Europe, London and Leeds, both feature-length episodes detail a tragic sequence of events from two distinct perspectives. At the heart of this thought-provoking drama is a revealing examination of British Muslim life under current anti-terror legislation. Britz ultimately asks whether the laws we think are making us safer, are actually putting us in greater danger.
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Title: Britz
Character: Nasima
Released: October 31, 2007
Type: TV
Two British-born Muslim siblings are drawn in radically different directions after 9/11.
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Title: Comedy Showcase
Character: News Reporter
Released: October 5, 2007
Type: TV
Comedy Showcase is a series of one-off comedy specials featuring some of Britain's fledgling comedy talent. Its format is reminiscent of the much earlier Comedy Playhouse. The format was replaced in 2012 by 4Funnies.
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Title: Skins
Character: Doctor Berg
Released: January 25, 2007
Type: TV
Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.
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Bradford Riots
Title: Bradford Riots
Character: Shazia
Released: May 4, 2006
Type: Movie
The story of the aftermath of the 2001 Bradford riots told from the perspective of an Asian familty
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Title: The Ghost Squad
Character: WPC Shareen Charan
Released: November 15, 2005
Type: TV
The Ghost Squad was a 2005 British crime drama series produced by Company Pictures, for Channel 4. The show was created by Tom Grieves. Inspired by the real life "Ghost Squad" that existed between 1994 and 1998, secretly investigating police corruption, the premise of the series is that the squad continued to operate in secret after officially being shut down. It starred Elaine Cassidy as a police constable recruited into the squad and Jonas Armstrong as her handler. The show was cancelled after a single seven episode series.
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Child of Mine
Title: Child of Mine
Character: WPC
Released: November 13, 2005
Type: Movie
A child psychologist adopted two girls whose mother was murdered, but when one begins acting strangely, fear drives her to the crime scene for answer.
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Title: The Thick of It
Character: Journalist 1
Released: May 19, 2005
Type: TV
Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his not-so-reliable team of civil servants.
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Title: Green Wing
Character: Theatre Nurse
Released: September 3, 2004
Type: TV
Follow new surgical registrar Dr Caroline Todd through her first day at work and beyond, starting out as she means to go on - dishevelled and under-deodorised! Along the way she meets an assortment of bizarre and demented characters. Be prepared for one of the most surreal journeys you're ever likely to take as you dive into the anarchic world of Green Wing Hospital!
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Title: Swiss Toni
Character: Jenny
Released: February 10, 2003
Type: TV
Sitcom following the antics of Toni, a self-deluding owner of a car showroom staffed by top salesman and alcoholic Geoff, trainee Paul and the object of Toni's affections, Miranda.
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Title: Doctors
Character: Harpit Jindal
Released: March 27, 2000
Type: TV
Set in the fictional Midlands town of Letherbridge, defined as being close to the city of Birmingham, this soap opera follows the staff and families of a doctor's surgery.
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Title: Doctors
Character: Laila Khalid
Released: March 27, 2000
Type: TV
Set in the fictional Midlands town of Letherbridge, defined as being close to the city of Birmingham, this soap opera follows the staff and families of a doctor's surgery.
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Title: Doctors
Character: Karen Slater
Released: March 27, 2000
Type: TV
Set in the fictional Midlands town of Letherbridge, defined as being close to the city of Birmingham, this soap opera follows the staff and families of a doctor's surgery.
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Title: Holby City
Character: Junior Nurse
Released: January 12, 1999
Type: TV
Drama series about life on the wards of Holby City Hospital, following the highs and lows of the staff and patients.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Dr. Kam Karimore
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Kam Karimore
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Title: The Bill
Character: Khadija Miah
Released: October 16, 1984
Type: TV
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.