Indira Varma

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“I didn’t know what Cersei was going to do to and The revelation after the kiss was brilliant. I really enjoyed the challenge of having to express more than one color through my eyes. It’s difficult Because I didn’t have any dialogue. I was gagged and chained to the wall, I had to find ways to tell her story in a different way.”

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ALSO KNOWN FOR

Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022)

Rome (2005)

Luther (2010)

Bride & Prejudice (2004)

Indira Anne Varma is a British actress, born on the 27th of September 1973 in Bath, Somerset, England. She is the only child of an Indian father and a Swiss mother who was of part Genoese Italian descent. Varma was a member of Musical Youth Theatre Company and in 1995 she graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. Varma’s film debut and first major role was in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996). She has gone on to appear in the television series The Canterbury Tales (2003), Rome (2005), Luther (2010), Human Target (2010), and is most well known for her portrayal as Ellaria Sand in the hit HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2014).

In 1997, Varma played Bianca in Shakespeare's Othello at the National Theatre, 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 Things Past. In 2009, she played Olivia in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night with Donmar West End at Wyndham's Theatre, London. In 2014, Varma played Tamora in Lucy Bailey's production of Titus Andronicus at Shakespeare's Globe. In 2015, she appeared alongside Ralph Fiennes in George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman at the National Theatre. In 2020, she starred in Chekhov's The Seagull, alongside Thrones co-star Emilia Clarke at the Playhouse Theatre. Her 2019 performance in Present Laughter at The Old Vic theatre earned Varma an Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

Varma, a method actress, has had a number of television and film roles, including Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love in 1996, Jinnah in 1998, and Bride and Prejudice in 2004, and the young Roman wife Niobe during the 2005 first season of BBC/HBO's historical drama series Rome. Her character appeared briefly in the second season of the award-winning series when it aired on 14 January 2007. In 2006, she played Suzie Costello in BBC Three's science-fiction drama series Torchwood and then guest starred in the fourth-season premiere of hit US detective drama Bones as Scotland Yard Inspector Cate Pritchard. Varma also played the role of Zoe Luther in the first series of the BBC drama Luther, and following this she played the role of Ilsa Pucci in the second season of the Fox series Human Target. In 2014, Varma was then cast as Ellaria Sand, the paramour of Oberyn Martell in season 4 of the HBO series Game of Thrones, where she played the role through the seventh season. September 2016, Varma also starred as DS Nina Suresh in the eight-episode ITV/Netflix series Paranoid. Most recently, Varma has starred in the Amazon Prime series Carnival Row (2019), as well as the two-season ABC legal drama For Life (2020), and will be co-starring in the Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022) as well as the Tom Cruise franchise Mission: Impossible 7 (2023).