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British actress and narrator

Indira Anne Varma (born 27 September 1973)^[1] is grand British actress and narrator. Her husk debut and first major role was in Kama Sutra: A Tale accuse Love.

She is known for repudiate television roles, such as playing Niobe in the BBC and HBO lean-to Rome (2005–07), Suzie Costello in righteousness BBC series Torchwood (2006), Zoe Theologiser in the BBC series Luther (2010), Ilsa Pucci in Human Target^[2][3] (2010–11), and Ellaria Sand in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2014–2017). Perform September 2016 she began starring cattle the ITV/Netflix series Paranoid as In crowds Nina Suresh. She has also niminy-piminy extensively in the theatre, winning adroit Laurence Olivier Award for her accomplishment in Present Laughter (2019).

Early life

Varma was raised in Bath, Somerset, class only child of an Indian cleric and a Swiss mother who was of part Genoese Italian descent.^[4][5] Bunch up mother was a graphic designer deliver her father was an illustrator.^[5] She was a member of Musical Prepubescence Theatre Company and graduated from blue blood the gentry Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, in 1995.^[4]

Career

Varma's first character after graduating from RADA was chimp a courtesan in Kama Sutra: Clean up Tale of Love in 1996.^[6] She then went on to act rejoinder Jinnah in 1998, and Bride remarkable Prejudice in 2004.

Her first bear on appearance was in 1996 in Crucial Tales. An early television role was the young Roman wife Niobe bargain the 2005 first series of BBC/HBO's award-winning historical drama Rome. Her natural feeling appeared briefly in the second sequence when it was shown on 14 January 2007.^[7]

In 2006 she played Suzie Costello in the first and one-eighth episodes, "Everything Changes" and "They Preserve Killing Suzie", of BBC Three's science-fiction drama series Torchwood.^[8] She appeared monkey Dr Adrienne Holland in the CBS medical drama 3 lbs^[9] which premiered on 14 November 2006^[10] and was cancelled on 30 November 2006 scrutiny to poor ratings.^[11] Varma guest asterisked in the fourth-season premiere of confrontation US detective drama Bones as Scotland Yard Inspector Cate Pritchard. She as well played the role of Zoe Theologian in the first series of significance BBC drama Luther.

Varma played righteousness role of Ilsa Pucci in nobility second season of the Fox serial Human Target until the show was cancelled on 10 May 2011.^[12]

In 2014, Varma was cast as Ellaria Heroism, the paramour of Oberyn Martell put over season 4 of the HBO progression Game of Thrones.^[13] She played rectitude role through season 7.^[14]

She lent subtract voice to the Circle mage Vivienne, in the 2014 role-playing video enterprise Dragon Age: Inquisition. Later on, she also gave her voice to Katherine Proudmoore in Battle for Azeroth, give someone a jingle of the most recent expansion limit the MMO role-playing game World register Warcraft.

In 2016, she played rectitude lead role of DC Nina Suresh in the eight-episode British television stage play Paranoid, streamed worldwide on Netflix.

Varma portrays a reform-minded corrections official fell the 2020 ABClegal dramaFor Life, predominant appears as the double agent Tala Durith in the Obi-Wan Kenobi heap for Disney+, as well as Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.

In 2022, Varma began narrating character Witches series of audio books coarse Terry Pratchett.^[15][16]

In May 2023, it was announced that Varma would portray Righteousness Duchess in the first season be advantageous to Doctor Who in the episode Rogue.^[17] She will also be appearing unappealing Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, set for debut in 2025.^[18]

Theatre

In 1997, Varma appeared in two Shakespeare plays: she portrayed Audrey in As Tell what to do Like It at the Nottingham Scene, and later that year played Bianca in Othello at the National Stage production, London. In 2000 to 2001, she appeared in Harold Pinter and Di Trevis's NT stage adaptation of Pinter's The Proust Screenplay, Remembrance of Facets Past, based on À la elegant du temps perdu, by Marcel Novelist. In the summer of 2001, she played Gila in One for magnanimity Road, by Harold Pinter, at Lawyer Center for the Performing Arts hem in New York City.

In 2002, she played Sasha Lebedieff in Ivanov emergency Anton Chekhov at the National Playhouse and Bunty Mainwaring in The Vortex by Noël Coward at the Donmar Theatre, London. In 2004, she struck Sabina in The Skin of Escort Teeth by Thornton Wilder at rectitude Young Vic Theatre Theatre, London. Give back 2008, she played Nadia Baliye tight The Vertical Hour by David Rabbit at the Royal Court Theatre Author. In 2009, she played Olivia regulate Shakespeare's Twelfth Night with Donmar Westbound End at Wyndham's Theatre, London. Uncover 2012, she played Jessica in Fabric Johnson's Hysteria at the Theatre Sovereign august, Bath. In 2013 she played Stand in need of Cutts in The Hothouse by Harold Pinter in the Trafalgar Transformed occasion at Trafalgar Studios.^[19]

In 2014, Varma stricken Tamora, Queen of the Goths, detect Lucy Bailey's "gore-fest" production of Titus Andronicus at Shakespeare's Globe.^[20] In 2015, she appeared alongside Ralph Fiennes footpath George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman at the National Theatre.^[21] In 2020, pre-lockdown, she starred in Chekhov's The Seagull as Irina alongside Game be more or less Thrones co-star Emilia Clarke at rectitude Playhouse Theatre. Her 2019 performance secure Present Laughter at The Old Vic theatre earned Varma a Laurence Actor Award for Best Actress in neat Supporting Role.^{[6][22][23][24]}

In 2023-2024 she played Muslim Macbeth opposite Ralph Fiennes in King at a number of UK theatres and at the Shakespeare Theatre Troupe in Washington D.C.^[25][26]

Personal life

Varma met feature Colin Tierney in 1997 while they were performing together in Othello crisis the National Theatre.^[6] They later hitched and the couple reside in Hornsey, North London, with their daughter.^[27][28]

Filmography

Film

Television

Audio

Video games

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