Sujaya Dasgupta

Sujaya Dasgupta (born 2 February) is a British actress. She is known for her roles in the Netflix series Shadow and Bone (2021–) and the Apple TV+ series Shantaram (2022). Early life Dasgupta was born in India; for her father's work, she moved to England at the age of 3, where she grew up in Hertfordshire. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Leicester in 2009. She then trained in acting, going on to graduate from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2015. Career Dasgupta appeared in the 2011 Barn Theatre productions of Lost and Private Fears in Public Places in Welwyn Garden City. She then made her London stage debut in as Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Theatro Technis in 2012. Upon graduating from drama school, Dasgupta made her television debut as Priya Sutaria in a 2015 episode of the BBC medical drama Doctors. The following year, she had a recurring role as Veena Patel in the Freeform mystery series Guilt. She then went on the UK tour of Death of a Salesman in 2017, and had further television roles as Esme in the BBC One drama Press and Jamila Vani in four episodes of the soap opera Casualty in 2018.