Pearl Chanda

Pearl Iannelli Chanda (born 11 March 1994) is an English actress. Early life Chanda was born in Balham, in the south London Borough of Wandsworth. She is of Italian and Indian descent. She attended the BRIT School, a specialist performing arts school in Croydon. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in acting from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in 2013. Career Chanda gained prominence through her work in theatre, making her stage debut in 2013 as Nina in the Headlong production of The Seagull. The following year, she made her television debut with a guest appearance in an episode of the BBC One soap opera Holby City. She played Julia in the 2014 Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Chanda appeared in the 2015 ITV miniseries Arthur & George as Maud Edalji. That same year, she had stage roles in Crave at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, The Angry Brigade at the Bush Theatre in London, and The Glass Menagerie at the Nuffield Theatre in Southampton. This was followed by roles in Ink at the Almeida and Duke of York's Theatre in 2017, One for Sorrow at the Royal Court Theatre in 2018, and Three Sisters in 2019, also at the Almeida. Meanwhile, she had a small role in Motherland on BBC Two.