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).
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Acting History
2026
Frank & Louis
2025Coldwater as Fiona
2025The Assessment as Ambika
2024Creature Commandos as The Bride (voice)
2024Dune: Prophecy
2024Disclaimer as Narrator (voice)
2024Doctor Who as Duchess of Pemberton
2024Macbeth as Lady Macbeth
2024The Trouble with Jessica as Jessica
2024Maya: Birth of a Superhero as Maya (Superhero)
2023Obi-Wan Kenobi - The Patterson Cut as Tala
2023Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One as DIA
2023Obsession as Ingrid Farrow
2023Extrapolations as Gita Mishra
2022National Theatre Live: The Seagull as Arkadina
2022Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return as Self - Tala Durith
2022Obi-Wan Kenobi as Tala Durith
2022The Legend of Vox Machina as Lady Allura Vysoren (voice)
2021Silent Hours as Dr. Catherine Benson
2021Crisis as Madira Brower
2020Faith Healer as Grace
2020The One and Only Ivan as Dr. Maya Wilson
2020Lost Pyramids of the Aztecs as Narrator (Voice)
2020Rebuilding Notre-Dame as Narrator - (Voice)
2020For Life as Safiya Masry
2019National Theatre Live: Present Laughter as Liz Essendine
2019The Capture as Khadija Khan
2019Official Secrets as Shami Chakrabarti
2019Carnival Row as Piety Breakspear
2019This Way Up as Charlotte
2019Secrets of Egypt's Valley of the Kings as Narrator (Voice)
2019Close as Rima Hassine
2018Patrick Melrose as Anne Moore
2017Unspeakable as Jo
2017Reported Missing as Self - Narrator (voice)
2017Reported Missing as Self - Narrator (voice)
2017Una as Sonia
2017The Great British Skinny Dip as Host
2017The Machine as Hannah
2016Paranoid as Nina Suresh
2015Vintage Blood as Izzy
2015National Theatre Live: Man and Superman as Ann Whitefield/Ana
2014Hampstead Theatre At Home: Tiger Country as Vashti
2014Exodus: Gods and Kings as High Priestess
2014Titus Andronicus - Live at Shakespeare's Globe as Tamora
2013Anna as Judith Morrow
2013What Remains as Elaine
2012Hunted as Natalie Thorpe
2012World Without End as Mattie Wise
2011Game of Thrones as Ellaria Sand
2011Silk as George Duggan
2010Luther as Zoe Luther
2010Harold Pinter: A Celebration as Self
2010Human Target as Ilsa Pucci
2009Moses Jones as Dolly
2009Inside the Box as Catherine Powell
2008Comanche Moon as Therese Wanz
2007The Whistleblowers as Alisha Cole
2007Sex and Death 101 as Devon Sever
20063 lbs as Adrianne Holland
2006Torchwood as Suzie Costello
2006Basic Instinct 2 as Denise Glass
2005A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets as Lucie "The dark lady"
2005Broken News as Melanie Bellamy
2005Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment'
2005Love Soup
2005Bones as Inspector Cate Pritchard
2005Rome as Niobe of the Voreni
2005The Quatermass Experiment as Judith Carroon
2004Hustle as D.C.I. Lucy Britford
2004Bride & Prejudice as Kiran
2003Reversals as Kathy Irwin
2003Canterbury Tales as Meena
2002Mad Dogs as Narendra
2002The Inspector Lynley Mysteries as Melissa Booth
2001Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Bela Khan
2001One for the Road as Gila
2001The Whistle-Blower as Diane Crossman
2000Attachments as Sasha
2000Attachments as Sacha
2000Other People's Children as Amy
1999Psychos
1998Jinnah as Ruttie Jinnah
1997Sixth Happiness as Amy
1997Clancy's Kitchen as Kitty
1997Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love as Maya
—Mother Daughter
—The Beacon