Tina Desai

Tina Desai is an Indian actress and model who works in both Indian and international projects. She debuted with the 2011 thriller Yeh Faasley, before making her foreign debut in 2012 in the comedy-drama The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. She is also known for her main role in the Netflix series Sense8. Early life Desai was born in Bangalore to a Gujarati father and a Telugu mother. She is a graduate in Business Management with a specialization in finance from the NIM. She is fluent in five languages—Gujarati, Telugu, Kannada, English and Hindi. Career Desai began her career as a model and went on to feature in over 150 commercials and print campaigns. She participated in the reality show contest Get Gorgeous through which she was offered a contract with Elite Model India Management. She made her acting debut in 2011 in Yeh Faasley, and shortly after, made her Hollywood debut in the film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. In 2015, Desai booked two high-profile English language projects, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, a sequel to the 2012 hit and the Netflix drama Sense8 by The Wachowskis and J. Michael Straczynski in which she plays Kala Dandekar.