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.”



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).



FILMOGRAPHY

2022 Extrapolations (TV Series)
Gita Mishra (1 episode)

2022 Obi-Wan Kenobi (TV Mini Series)
Tala Durith

2022 The Legend of Vox Machina (TV Series)
Lady Allura Vysoren (voice - 4 episodes)

2021 Silent Hours (TV Movie)
Dr. Catherine Benson

2019-2021 This Way Up (TV Series)
Charlotte (10 episodes)

2021 Crisis
Madira Brower

2020-2021 For Life (TV Series)
Safiya Masry (23 episodes)

2020 Faith Healer
Grace

2020 The One and Only Ivan
Dr. Maya Wilson

2019 National Theatre Live: Present Laughter
Liz Essendine

2019 Carnival Row (TV Series)
Piety Breakspear (8 episodes)

2019 Official Secrets
Shami Chakrabarti

2019 Close
Rima Hassine

2018 Patrick Melrose (TV Mini Series)
Anne Moore

2017 Silent Hours (TV Series)
Dr. Catherine Benson (3 episodes)

2017 The Machine (TV Movie)
Hannah

2017 Unspeakable (TV Movie)
Jo

2014-2017 Game of Thrones (TV Series)
Ellaria Sand (13 episodes)

2016 Paranoid (TV Series)
Nina Suresh (8 episodes)

2016 Una
Sonia

2016 New Blood (TV Series)
Lisa Douglas (2 episodes)

2015 Le Donne (TV Mini Series)
Caterina Riccardi

2015 National Theatre Live: Man and Superman
Ann Whitefield / Ana

2015 Shakespeare's Globe: Titus Andronicus
Tamora

2014 Exodus: Gods and Kings
High Priestess

2013 Anna
Judith Morrow

2013 What Remains (TV Mini Series)
Elaine Markham

2012 Hunted (TV Series)
Natalie Thorpe (5 episodes)

2012 World Without End (TV Mini Series)
Mattie Wise

2012 Silk (TV Series)
George Duggan (6 episodes)

2010-2011 Human Target (TV Series)
Ilsa Pucci (13 episodes)

2010 Luther (TV Series)
Zoe Luther (7 episodes)

2010 Hustle (TV Series)
D.C.I. Lucy Britford (2 episodes)

2009 Inside the Box (TV Movie)
Catherine Powell

2009 Moses Jones (TV Mini Series)
Dolly

2008 Bones (TV Series)
Inspector Cate Pritchard (1 episode)

2008 Law & Order: Criminal Intent (TV Series)
Bela Khan (1 episode)

2008 Comanche Moon (TV Mini Series)
Therese Wanz

2007 The Whistleblowers (TV Series)
Alisha Cole (6 episodes)

2007 Sex and Death 101
Devon Sever

2005-2007 Rome (TV Series)
Niobe (14 episodes)

2006 3 lbs. (TV Series)
Dr. Adrianne Holland (6 episodes)

2006 Torchwood (TV Series)
Suzie Costello (2 episodes)

2006 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (TV Series)
Melissa Booth (1 episode)

2006 Basic Instinct 2
Denise Glass

2005 Broken News (TV Mini Series)
Melanie Bellamy

2005 Little Britain (TV Series)
Health Spa Receptionist / Babysitting Mother (3 episodes)

2005 The Quatermass Experiment (TV Movie)
Judith Carroon

2005 Love Soup (TV Series)
Suzanne Daley (1 episode)

2004 Rover's Return (Short)
Zeta

2004 Donovan (TV Series)
Cara Mathis (2 episodes)

2004 Bride & Prejudice
Kiran

2003 Reversals (TV Movie)
Kathy Irwin

2003 Canterbury Tales (TV Mini Series)
Meena

2003 Rockface (TV Series)
Alison (1 episode)

2002 Mad Dogs
Narendra

2000-2001 Attachments (TV Series)
Sasha (4 episodes)

2001 The Whistle-Blower (TV Movie)
Diane Crossman

2001 In a Land of Plenty (TV Mini Series)
Sonali Ganatra

2000 Other People's Children (TV Series)
Amy

2000 Zehn wahnsinnige Tage (TV Movie)
Ra

1999 Psychos (TV Mini Series)
Dr. Martine Nichol

1998 Jinnah
Ruttie Jinnah

1997 Sixth Happiness
Amy

1997 Clancy's Kitchen
Kitty

1996 Crucial Tales (TV Mini Series)
Manreet

1996 Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
Maya