Nowras Tharb
Acting
Biography
Nowras Tharb is a British Iraqi actor and director. An Arabic speaker, he is known for his screen performances in the Apple TV+ series Hijack (2023), the BBC drama Vigil (2021), and as Rafiq, a grieving Syrian father, in the film Distant Sky (2022). Making his London stage debut as Haroun in 'Haroun and the Sea of Stories', he toured the UK as Jamal in the award-winning play 'The Syrian Baker' in 2022. Trained at LAMDA in Shakespeare and Jacobean, he fell in love with classical text in his early years; appearing in 'Richard III' at the Cochrane Theatre. A former British Champion and England International in Karate, he has worked as a fight director, and achieved a distinction in unarmed combat, from the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat. He writes and performs spoken word poetry. Further screen work includes Ernie (2020) starring Steven Berkoff and Paul Kaye.
Known For
Expert negotiator Sam Nelson is in for the ride of his life—and so is everyone on board with him—after a group of hijackers take control. Sam will try every move in his playbook to take them down...as the stakes grow higher by the second.
Hijack
The mysterious disappearance of a Scottish fishing trawler and a death on-board the submarine HMS Vigil bring the police into conflict with the Navy and British security services. DCI Amy Silva and DS Kirsten Longacre lead an investigation on land and at sea into a conspiracy that goes to the very heart of Britain’s national security.
Vigil
Ernie is a vulnerable recluse who spends his life caring for his racist father and navigating a world in which he doesn't quite fit in to.
Ernie
Having endured a traumatic voyage to the shores of the United Kingdom, two Syrian migrants argue. One insists they cannot stay where they have ended up, while the other believes they must make a new life no matter where they find themselves. But where are they really, and is the treacherous journey to their new home truly over?