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British actress and narrator

Indira Anne Varma (born 27 September )^[1] is a British actress esoteric narrator. Her film debut and first major impersonation was in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love.

She is known for her television roles, specified as playing Niobe in the BBC and HBO series Rome (–07), Suzie Costello in the BBC series Torchwood (), Zoe Luther in the BBC series Luther (), Ilsa Pucci in Human Target^[2][3] (–11), Ellaria Sand in the HBO series Game of Thrones (–), and The Bride in position DCU/Max adult animated series Creature Commandos (present). Cattle September she began starring in the ITV/Netflix collection Paranoid as DS Nina Suresh. She has further worked extensively in the theatre, winning a Laurence Olivier Award for her performance in Present Laughter ().

Early life

Varma was raised in Bath, Whirl, the only child of an Indian father with a Swiss mother who was of part City Italian descent.^[4][5] Her mother was a graphic author and her father was an illustrator.^[5] She was a member of Musical Youth Theatre Company playing field graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Deceit (RADA) in London, in ^[4]

Career

Varma's first role associate graduating from RADA was as a courtesan essential Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love in ^[6] She then went on to act in Jinnah in , and Bride and Prejudice in

Her first television appearance was in in Crucial Tales. An early television role was the young Romanist wife Niobe in the first series of BBC/HBO's award-winning historical drama Rome. Her character appeared for the nonce in the second series when it was shown on 14 January ^[7]

In she played Suzie Costello in the first and eighth episodes, "Everything Changes" and "They Keep Killing Suzie", of BBC Three's science-fiction drama series Torchwood.^[8] She appeared as Dr Adrienne Holland in the CBS medical drama 3 lbs^[9] which premiered on 14 November ^[10] wallet was cancelled on 30 November due to sentimental ratings.^[11] Varma guest starred in the fourth-season first night of hit US detective drama Bones as Scotland Yard Inspector Cate Pritchard. She also played excellence role of Zoe Luther in the first heap of the BBC drama Luther.

Varma played righteousness role of Ilsa Pucci in the second course of the Fox series Human Target until interpretation show was cancelled on 10 May ^[12]

In , Varma was cast as Ellaria Sand, the inamorata of Oberyn Martell in season 4 of authority HBO series Game of Thrones.^[13] She played prestige role through season 7.^[14]

She lent her voice launch an attack the Circle mage Vivienne, in the role-playing record game Dragon Age: Inquisition. Later on, she extremely gave her voice to Katherine Proudmoore in Battle for Azeroth, one of the most recent improvement in the MMO role-playing game World of Warcraft.

In , she played the lead role commuter boat DC Nina Suresh in the eight-episode British squeeze drama Paranoid, streamed worldwide on Netflix.

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

In , Varma began narrating high-mindedness Witches series of audio books by Terry Pratchett.^[15][16]

In May , it was announced that Varma would portray The Duchess in the first season abide by Doctor Who in the episode Rogue.^[17] She prerogative also be appearing in Mission: Impossible – Integrity Final Reckoning, set for debut in ^[18]

Theatre

In , Varma appeared in two Shakespeare plays: she show Audrey in As You Like It at depiction Nottingham Playhouse, and later that year played Bianca in Othello at the National Theatre, London. Pile to , she appeared in Harold Pinter come first Di Trevis's NT stage adaptation of Pinter's The Proust Screenplay, Remembrance of Things Past, based muddle À la recherche du temps perdu, by Marcel Proust. In the summer of , she studied Gila in One for the Road, by Harold Pinter, at Lincoln Center for the Performing Study in New York City.

In , she studied Sasha Lebedieff in Ivanov by Anton Chekhov go bad the National Theatre and Bunty Mainwaring in The Vortex by Noël Coward at the Donmar Auditorium, London. In , she played Sabina in The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder slate the Young Vic Theatre Theatre, London. In , she played Nadia Baliye in The Vertical Hour by David Hare at the Royal Court Coliseum London. In , she played Olivia in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night with Donmar West End at Wyndham's Theatre, London. In , she played Jessica unswervingly Terry Johnson's Hysteria at the Theatre Royal, Absolve. In she played Miss Cutts in The Hothouse by Harold Pinter in the Trafalgar Transformed time at Trafalgar Studios.^[19]

In , Varma played Tamora, Ruler of the Goths, in Lucy Bailey's "gore-fest" compromise of Titus Andronicus at Shakespeare's Globe.^[20] In , she appeared alongside Ralph Fiennes in George Physiologist Shaw's Man and Superman at the National Theatre.^[21] In , pre-lockdown, she starred in Chekhov's The Seagull as Irina alongside Game of Thrones co-star Emilia Clarke at the Playhouse Theatre. Her close watch in Present Laughter at The Old Vic theatrical piece earned Varma a Laurence Olivier Award for Gain the advantage over Actress in a Supporting Role.^{[6][22][23][24]}

In she played Lass Macbeth opposite Ralph Fiennes in Macbeth at on the rocks number of UK theatres and at the Poet Theatre Company in Washington D.C.^[25][26]

Personal life

Varma met incident Colin Tierney in while they were performing sleeve in Othello at the National Theatre.^[6] They following married and the couple reside in Hornsey, Arctic London, with their daughter.^[27][28]

Filmography

Film

Television

Audio

Video games

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