Indira Varma

Indira Anne Varma (born 27 September 1973) 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, and Game of Thrones (playing Ellaria Sand). In September 2016 she began starring in the ITV/Netflix series Paranoid as DS Nina Suresh. Early life Varma was raised in Bath, Somerset, the only child of an Indian father and a Swiss mother who was of part Genoese Italian descent. Her mother was a graphic designer and her father was an illustrator. She was a member of Musical Youth Theatre Company and graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, in 1995. Career Varma's first role after graduating from RADA was as a courtesan in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love in 1996. She then went on to act in Jinnah in 1998, and Bride and Prejudice in 2004. Her first television appearance was in 1996 in Crucial Tales. A notable early television role was the young Roman wife Niobe in the 2005 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 14 January 2007.