Indira Varma
Biography
Indira Varma is a British actress and narrator who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and grew up in Bath. Her first major screen role came in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996), followed by Jinnah (1998) and Bride & Prejudice (2004), and she built much of her reputation on television, playing Niobe in Rome, Suzie Costello in Torchwood, Zoe Luther in Luther, Ilsa Pucci in Human Target and Ellaria Sand in Game of Thrones, as well as leading the Netflix drama Paranoid. She was Tala Durith, a double agent, in Obi-Wan Kenobi, and appeared in Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One (2023). Her stage work earned her a Laurence Olivier Award for Present Laughter in 2019 and an Olivier nomination for Oedipus in 2025, and she has narrated Terry Pratchett's Witches audiobooks and voiced video game characters.
53years old
Turns 54 on September 27in 349 days
- Born Bath
- Star sign: LibraThe sign runs September 23 to October 22
- Indira Anne Varma (birth name)
Movie Career
- Films
- 15
- Career span
- 28 years1996 to 2024
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First role
After she graduated from RADA, Varma's first role was a courtesan in the 1996 film Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love.
Early training
Varma trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, graduating in 1995, and was a member of the Musical Youth Theatre Company.
Indira Varma movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Seven actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Joel Edgerton's page
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Andrew Tiernan's page
Tara Fitzgerald's page
Naveen Andrews's page
Also two films together1 more actor
- Christopher SciuerefClose (2019) and Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Indira Varma's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$919 million
9 of the 15 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 15 films: 9 worldwide figure; 1 us gross only; 4 never in cinemas; 1 figure not found.
- 9Worldwide figure
- 1US gross only
- 4Never in cinemas
- 1Figure not found
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$571M62.2% of the total
- 2$268M29.2% of the total
- 3$39M4.2% of the total
- 4$25M2.7% of the total
- 5$10M1.1% of the total
- 6$4.1M0.4% of the total
- 7$1.2M0.1% of the total
- 8$677K0.1% of the total
$279,328from the other 1 film with a worldwide figure, 0% of the total