
Shanaya Rafaat
Known For & Full Filmography8 Titles

Drama Series - 2007, 16 episodes • as Talika Desai
Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.

Drama Series - 2011, 16 episodes • as Fatima Ali
Passionate defence barrister Martha Costello faces challenging cases and surprising clients, which test her faith in the criminal justice system. Gifted colleague Clive Reader is called to the bar with her. They work hard with pupils, Nick Slade and Niamh Cranitch, but ultimately only one can eventually be taken on as a member of chambers.

Drama Series - 2021, 16 episodes • as Stella Mawson
A recent widower and acclaimed poet, enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh employs his exceptional empathy and insight to plumb the darker depths of the human psyche while investigating complex crimes in 1970s England.

Drama Series - 2024, 16 episodes • as Soraya Mansoori
DCI Ellis, a tenacious cop, is parachuted into failing investigations alongside her partner DS Harper. Each case will bring her to a different police station where she'll have to not only immerse herself in the case, but also win over the local police.

Movie - 2025, 2h 15m • as Rupa
Jeremy O'Reilly, the self-important presenter of a TV news show, returns to a clueless East End community where a prank leads to the murder of a beautiful local actress and a savage Press that demands to know, "Who killed Paige Boston?"

Movie - 2013, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An MI5 officer's attempts to foil a possible terrorist plot are undermined by bureaucracy and moral dilemmas. Will he make the world a safer place or be complicit in making a tense situation even worse?

Movie - 2011, 2h 15m • as Maya Rao
In a tiny first class train cabin in India, 1976, a self-assured Mohan Bhatt encounters his first love, Maya Rao, from 6 years before...

Movie - 2022, 2h 15m • as Tilottama (Tilly)
Anamika, the child of a mixed marriage, returns home to her estranged mother Sadhana because she is suffering from the onset of dementia. Ana returns to a neighborhood she barely remembers, to a woman who sometimes doesn’t remember her.