Jassa Ahluwalia

Jassa Singh Ahluwalia (born 12 September 1990) is a British actor, director and radio presenter. He acted in the BBC television series Some Girls, the film The Whale and presented the Disney Junior TV show Art Attack.

Early life Ahluwalia was born in Coventry, England. He is of British and Indian descent, and speaks fluent Punjabi. His grandfather was the architect James A Roberts, and his sister Ramanique also acts. While at school, he had a number of small roles, including a speaking role in the film My Angel. He presented the show for one series in 2011, filming in Argentina, before being replaced by Lloyd Warbey.

In 2011, Ahluwalia began work on his debut music album All Your Letters.

Ahluwalia's next big break was securing the recurring part of lovable badboy Rocky in BBC Three's Some Girls. He was the love interest of the main character Viva (Adelayo Adedayo). He appeared in 12 episodes in the shows run from 2012-2014.

A role in BBC One's Casualty was next, as he performed in an episode entitled "Seeing in the Dark", which aired on 27 October 2012. Ahluwalia had a small part in The Bible, where he played young David, slayer of Goliath.

Ahluwalia featured again on BBC One in December 2013, in the film The Whale which tells the true story of the sinking of the whaleship Essex.

In 2013, Ahluwalia produced a short film entitled Modern Man with director Sebastian Solberg. The film tells the story of an accidental time-travelling cave-woman and her chance encounter with Rupert on the day he plans to propose to his girlfriend.

He has also filmed an as yet unreleased project for NBC Universal.

Ahluwalia has presented programmes on the BBC Asian Network.

Filmography + Television Year Title Role 2011 Art Attack Himself 2012 Casualty Bart Nowak 2013 The Bible Young David 2012–2014 Some Girls Rocky 2013 Ripper Street Vincent Featherwell 2015–2021 Unforgotten Adam Stuart 2016 Peaky Blinders Dimitri