Overview
Amita Emmanuelle Dhiri (born 1965 in Brighton, England) is a British actress.
Personal life
Dhiri was born to a French mother, Antonia and Ugandan-Indian accountant father, Vinod Dhiri. Dhiri is a sub caste of the Sood community of Punjab, India. She has two younger brothers, and speaks fluent French and Hindi.
She married Bradley Carroll in 1994 and has two daughters.
Career
Dhiri has said that she was very shy when she was little and that this led her into acting. Her first experience of acting came about when a friend of hers who was at film school had a friend who was doing a film for their degree, and asked Dhiri to be in it.
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