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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1973-09-27 (51 years old)

Place of Birth

Bath, Somerset, England, UK

Indira Varma

Biography:

Indira Anne Varma is an English stage and screen actress. She was a member of Musical Youth Theatre Company and graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, in 1995. Her film debut and first major role was in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love. She has gone on to appear in the television series The Canterbury Tales, Rome, Luther, Human Target, and Game of Thrones (as Ellaria Sand).

Known For

Acting

2025

The Assessment as Ambika

2024

Macbeth as Lady Macbeth
Maya: Birth of a Superhero as Maya (Superhero)
Creature Commandos as The Bride (voice)
Doctor Who as Duchess of Pemberton
Disclaimer as Narrator (voice)

2023

Obsession as Ingrid Farrow
Extrapolations as Gita Mishra

2022

Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return as Self - Tala Durith
The Legend of Vox Machina as Lady Allura Vysoren (voice)
Obi-Wan Kenobi as Tala Durith

2021

Silent Hours as Dr. Catherine Benson
Crisis as Madira Brower

2020

Faith Healer as Grace
The One and Only Ivan as Dr. Maya Wilson
Lost Pyramids of the Aztecs as Narrator (Voice)
For Life as Safiya Masry
Rebuilding Notre-Dame as Narrator - (Voice)

2019

Close as Rima Hassine
Official Secrets as Shami Chakrabarti
The Capture as Khadija Khan
This Way Up as Charlotte
Carnival Row as Piety Breakspear

2018

Patrick Melrose as Anne Moore

2017

Una as Sonia
The Machine as Hannah
Reported Missing as Self - Narrator (voice)
Reported Missing as Self - Narrator (voice)

2016

Paranoid as Nina Suresh

2015

2014

Exodus: Gods and Kings as High Priestess

2013

Anna as Judith Morrow
What Remains as Elaine

2012

Hunted as Natalie Thorpe
World Without End as Mattie Wise

2011

Game of Thrones as Ellaria Sand
Silk as George Duggan

2010

Luther as Zoe Luther
Human Target as Ilsa Pucci

2009

Moses Jones as Dolly

2008

Comanche Moon as Therese Wanz

2007

Sex and Death 101 as Devon Sever
The Whistleblowers as Alisha Cole

2006

Basic Instinct 2 as Denise Glass
3 LBS as Adrianne Holland
Torchwood as Suzie Costello

2005

The Quatermass Experiment as Judith Carroon
Rome as Niobe of the Voreni
Broken News as Melanie Bellamy
Bones as Inspector Cate Pritchard

2004

Hustle as D.C.I. Lucy Britford

2003

Reversals as Kathy Irwin

2002

Mad Dogs as Narendra

2001

The Whistle-Blower as Diane Crossman

2000

Attachments as Sasha
Attachments as Sacha

1999

1998

Jinnah as Ruttie Jinnah

1997

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Inside the Box as Catherine Powell
Cold Water as Fiona

Production

2018

Early Days as Executive Producer