
Indira Varma
Department: Acting
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).
Known For

Basic Instinct 2
2006

Silent Hours
2021

Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
1997

The Quatermass Experiment
2005

Bride & Prejudice
2004

Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014

A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
2005

Anna
2013

One for the Road
2001

National Theatre Live: The Seagull
2022

Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
2022

Mad Dogs
2002

The Beacon
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National Theatre Live: Man and Superman
2015

The Trouble with Jessica
2024

Una
2017

Macbeth
2024

Mother Daughter
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Vintage Blood
2015

The Whistle-Blower
2001

Titus Andronicus - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2014

Maya: Birth of a Superhero
2024

Jinnah
1998

The Assessment
2025

Inside the Box
2009

Sex and Death 101
2007

Reversals
2003

Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010

Close
2019

Unspeakable
2017

Official Secrets
2019

The Machine
2017

Crisis
2021

National Theatre Live: Present Laughter
2019

Clancy's Kitchen
1997

Sixth Happiness
1997

Hampstead Theatre At Home: Tiger Country
2014

Faith Healer
2020

The Great British Skinny Dip
2017

The One and Only Ivan
2020

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2023

Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment'
2005

Frank & Louis
2026

Luther
2010

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
2002

Rome
2005

3 lbs
2006

Hustle
2004

Other People's Children
2000

Comanche Moon
2008

Human Target
2010

Psychos
1999

Moses Jones
2009

Obsession
2023

Extrapolations
2023

Creature Commandos
2024

The Whistleblowers
2007

Secrets of Egypt's Valley of the Kings
2019

Hunted
2012

What Remains
2013

Lost Pyramids of the Aztecs
2020

The Capture
2019

Canterbury Tales
2003

Broken News
2005

Love Soup
2005

Game of Thrones
2011

Paranoid
2016

The Legend of Vox Machina
2022

This Way Up
2019

Obi-Wan Kenobi
2022

Torchwood
2006

Patrick Melrose
2018

World Without End
2012

Doctor Who
2024

Carnival Row
2019

For Life
2020

Rebuilding Notre-Dame
2020

Bones
2005

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001

Reported Missing
2017

Reported Missing
2017

Coldwater
2025

Disclaimer
2024

Attachments
2000

Attachments
2000

Dune: Prophecy
2024

The Night Manager
2016

Silk
2011

The Other Bennet Sister
2026

Invincible
2021