Indira Varma

Indira Varma
Born	14 May 1973 (1973-05-14) Bath, England

Indira Varma (born 14 May 1973 in Bath, Somerset) is an English actress. Her first major role was in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love. She has gone on to appear in the television series Rome and Human Target.

Early life and background

Varma is the only child of an Indian father and a Swiss mother who was part Genoese Italian. 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.

Career

Varma has had a number of television and film roles, including Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love 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.

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. She appeared as Dr. Adrienne Holland in the CBS medical drama 3 lbs which premiered on 14 November 2006 and was cancelled on 30 November 2006 due to poor ratings. Varma guest starred in the fourth season premier of hit US detective drama Bones as Scotland Yard Inspector Cate Pritchard. She also played the role of Zoe Luther in the six part BBC drama Luther.

Varma played the role of Ilsa Pucci in the second season of the Fox television series Human Target until the show was cancelled on May 10, 2011.

Filmography

• Clancy's Kitchen (1996) .... Kitty
• Crucial Tales: Phoenix (1996) TV mini-series .... Manreet
• Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996) .... Maya
• Sixth Happiness (1997) .... Amy
• Jinnah (1998) .... Ruttie Jinnah
• Psychos (1999) TV mini-series .... Dr. Martine Nichol
• Zehn wahnsinnige Tage (2000) (TV) .... Ra
• Other People's Children (unknown episodes, 2000) .... Amy
• Sci-Fright (unknown episodes, 2000) .... Host – Nina (2000)
• In a Land of Plenty (unknown episodes, 2001) .... Sonali Ganatra
• The Whistle-Blower (2001) (TV) .... Diane Crossman
• Attachments (4 episodes, "User Friendly", "The Irony Act", "Gaydar" and "Eye Candy", 2000–2001) .... Sasha
• Mad Dogs (2002) .... Narendra
• Rockface (1 episode, "#2.5", 2003) .... Alison
• The Canterbury Tales (1 episode, "The Sea Captain's Tale", 2003) .... Meena
• Reversals (2003) (TV) .... Kathy Irwin
• Donovan (2004) .... Cara Mathis
• Bride and Prejudice (2004) .... Kiran Balraj
• The Quatermass Experiment (2005) (TV) .... Judith Carroon
• Love Soup (1 episode, "They Do Not Move", 2005) .... Suzanne Daley
• A Waste of Shame (2005) (TV) .... Lucie ("the Dark Lady")
• Broken News (6 episodes, 2005) .... Melanie Bellamy – ESN
• Little Britain (3 episodes, "#3.1", "#3.5" and "#3.6", 2005) .... ... / Babysitting Mother / Health Spa Receptionist
• Rome (15 episodes, 2005–2007) .... Niobe of the Voreni
• Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment' (2005) (V) .... Herself
• Pride and Prejudice Revisited (2005) (TV) .... Kiran Balraj archive footage (uncredited)
• Basic Instinct 2 (2006) .... Denise Glass
• The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (1 episode, "In the Blink of an Eye", 2006) .... Melissa Booth
• Torchwood (2 episodes, "Everything Changes" and "They Keep Killing Suzie", 2006) .... Suzie Costello
• 3 lbs (6 episodes, 2006) .... Dr. Adrianne Holland
• Sex and Death 101 (2007) .... Devon Server (uncredited)
• The Whistleblowers (6 episodes, 2007) .... Alisha Cole
• Comanche Moon (2008) TV mini-series .... Therese Wanz
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent (1 episode, "Assassin", 2008) .... Bela Khan
• Bones (1 episode, "Yanks in the U.K.", 2008) .... Inspector Cate Pritchard
• The Finest (2009) .... Detective Superintendent Madeline Jenner (pre-production)
• Moses Jones (2009) (TV three-part series)....Dolly
• Hustle (2010) Episode 1 & 6 – "Can't Catch Us Yet' ..... DCI Lucy Britford
• Luther (2010) .... Zoe Luther
• Human Target (2010–2011) .... Ilsa Pucci

Theatre

In 1997 Varma played Bianca in Shakespeare's Othello at the National Theatre (NT), 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, based on À la recherche du temps perdu, by Marcel Proust. In the summer of 2001, she played Gila in One for the Road, by Harold Pinter, at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, a production that had originated in at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, and also had been performed in London, prior to moving to New York for the Lincoln Center Festival's Harold Pinter Festival.

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. In 2008 she played Nadia Baliye in The Vertical Hour by David Hare at the Royal Court Theatre London. In 2009 she played Olivia in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night with Donmar West End at Wyndham's Theatre, London.

Personal life

Indira lives in London with her husband and their four-year-old daughter.

External links

• Indira Varma at the Internet Movie Database