Indira Varma

Indira Anne Varma (born 27 September 1973)[1] is a British actress and narrator. 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,[2][3] and Game of Thrones (playing Ellaria Sand). In September 2016 she began starring in the ITV/Netflix series Paranoid as DS Nina Suresh. She also stars in the Amazon Prime series Carnival Row.

Varma was raised in Bath, Somerset, the only child of an Indian father and a Swiss mother who was of part Genoese Italian descent.[4] She was a member of Musical Youth Theatre Company and graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, in 1995