Indira Varma

Infobox Actor

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name = Indira Varma
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birthdate = 1973
birthplace = Bath, England

Indira Varma (born 1973 in Bath, Somerset) is an English actress. Before her rise to fame she was a member of Musical Youth Theatre Company. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London in 1995.

Early life

She was the only child of an Indian father and a Swiss mother who was part Genoese Italian. [ [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/01/19/btvarma119.xml Telegraph.co.uk] ]

Career

Varma has had a number television and film roles, including "" in 1997 and "Bride and Prejudice" in 2004, and the young Roman wife Niobe during the 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 Sunday, 14 January 2007. [ [http://niralimagazine.com/2007/01/vorenus-hearts-varma/ "Vorenus Hearts Varma"] , Nirali Magazine Blog]

In 2006 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". [cite journal
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date = 2006-09-13 ] She appeared as Dr. Adrienne Holland in the CBS medical drama "3 lbs" [cite web
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accessdate = 2006-11-08 ] which premiered on 14 November 2006 [cite web
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accessdate = 2006-11-08 ] and was cancelled on 30 November 2006 due to poor ratings. [http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/30/television.lbs.reut/index.html] [http://www.tv.com/story/7336.html?tag=headlines;title;0]

Filmography and television

* "The Finest" (2009) .... Detective Superintendant Madeline Jenner (pre-production)
* "Bones" (1 episode, "Yanks in the U.K.", 2008) .... Inspector Cate Pritchard
* ' (1 episode, ', 2008) .... Bela Khan
* "Comanche Moon" (2008) TV mini-series .... Therese Wanz
* "The Whistleblowers" (6 episodes, 2007) .... Alisha Cole
* "Sex and Death 101" (2007) .... Devon Server (uncredited)
* "3 lbs" (6 episodes, 2006) .... Dr. Adrianne Holland
* "Torchwood" (2 episodes, "Everything Changes" and "They Keep Killing Suzie", 2006) .... Suzie Costello
* "The Inspector Lynley Mysteries" (1 episode, "In the Blink of an Eye", 2006) .... Melissa Booth
* "Basic Instinct 2" (2006) .... Denise Glass
* "Pride and Prejudice Revisited" (2005) (TV) .... Kiran Balraj archive footage (uncredited)
* "" (2005) (V) .... Herself
* "Rome" (15 episodes, 2005-2007) .... Niobe of the Voreni
* "Little Britain" (3 episodes, "#3.1", "#3.5" and "#3.6", 2005) .... ... / Babysitting Mother / Health Spa Receptionist
* "Broken News" (6 episodes, 2005) .... Melanie Bellamy - ESN
* "A Waste of Shame" (2005) (TV) .... Lucie ("the Dark Lady")
* "Love Soup" (1 episode, "They Do Not Move", 2005) .... Suzanne Daley
* "The Quatermass Experiment" (2005) (TV) .... Judith Carroon
* "Bride and Prejudice" (2004) .... Kiran Bingley
* "Donovan" (2004) .... Cara Mathis
* "Reversals" (2003) (TV) .... Kathy Irwin
* "The Canterbury Tales" (1 episode, "The Sea Captain's Tale", 2003) .... Meena
* "Rockface" (1 episode, "#2.5", 2003) .... Alison
* "Mad Dogs" (2002) .... Narendra
* "Attachments" (4 episodes, "User Friendly", "The Irony Act", "Gaydar" and "Eye Candy", 2000-2001) .... Sasha
* "The Whistle-Blower" (2001) (TV) .... Diane Crossman
* "In a Land of Plenty" (unknown episodes, 2001) .... Sonali Ganatra
* "Sci-Fright" (unknown episodes, 2000) .... Host - Nina (2000)
* "Other People's Children" (unknown episodes, 2000) .... Amy
* "Zehn wahnsinnige Tage" (2000) (TV) .... Ra
* "Psychos" (1999) TV mini-series .... Dr. Martine Nichol
* "Jinnah" (1998) .... Ruttie Jinnah
* "Sixth Happiness" (1997) .... Amy
* "" (1996) .... Maya
* "" (1996) TV mini-series .... Manreet
* "Clancy's Kitchen" (1996) .... Kitty

Theatre

In 1997 Varma played Bianca in Shakespeare's "Othello" at the National Theatre, London. In 2001 she appeared in "Remembrance of things past" by Marcel Proust at the National Theatre, London. Also in 2001 she played Gila in "One for the Road" by Harold Pinter at the Lincoln Center in New York.

In 2002 she played Sasha Lebedieff in "Ivanov" by Anton Chekhov at the National Theatre, London and Bunty Mainwaring in "The Vortex" by Noel Coward at the Donmar Theatre, London.In 2004 she played Sabina in "The Skin of Our Teeth" by Thornton Wilder at the Young Vic Theatre Theatre, London. And in 2008 she played Nadia Baliye in "The Vertical Hour" by David Hare at the Royal Court Theatre London.

References

External links

*imdb name|id=0890055|name=Indira Varma

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