Jassa Ahluwalia (born 12th September 1990) is a British actor, writer and filmmaker. Owing to his mixed British-Indian heritage Jassa is a fluent Punjabi speaker and continued his passion for languages at University College London, studying Russian and Spanish. In 2010, at the start of his second year, he left university to focus on his career.

After discovering film and TV was an ‘industry’ as a fifteen-year-old aspiring actor and work experience student at Independent Talent, Jassa began to focus not only on honing his craft, but breaking into the business. He pursued student films and shorts before landing his first lead role at sixteen via open auditions in a British independent musical feature film. Despite the involvement of accomplished creatives, the film was never released. But the process was an education, both in filmmaking and the harsh realities of the industry.

Armed with an expanding knowledge of the business, Jassa persisted. He worked as a runner on TV productions such as Bremner, Bird and Fortune and as a supporting artist on various low/no budget projects, distributing his CV and headshot as he went. On one such set Jassa met the sister of his first agent, Samantha How. Professional auditions brought opportunities and after several minor projects, and a brief stint as a Disney presenter, Jassa landed his first major role, Rocky in BBC Three’s hit comedy Some Girls.

Shortly after wrapping on the first series Jassa flew to Morocco to shoot the blockbuster mini-series The Bible. He returned to the UK and to Independent Talent, this time as a client. Jassa has since starred in various critically acclaimed projects, including Peaky Blinders, Ripper Street and Unforgotten.

Jassa’s writer-director debut short film - Heart’s Ease - won two Best Film awards during its festival run, and was an official selection at San Diego International Film Festival and the BAFTA-qualifying London Short Film Festival. Bestselling author Anthony Horowitz described it as “an accomplished piece of film-making”. Jassa continues to develop various writing and directing projects.

In 2019, Jassa went viral and created the hashtag #BothNotHalf, the distillation of his thinking on his mixed heritage experience. In 2020, Jassa was invited to share these thoughts in India at TEDxChandigarh.

Jassa is represented by Hatton McEwan Penford (UK) and SC Management (US).