Ritu Arya

Ritu Arya is a British actress who began acting as a teenager and trained at the Oxford School of Drama after earning a degree in astrophysics from the University of Southampton, where she performed with student theater groups. She moved from short films and a guest spot on Sherlock in 2014 to a recurring role as Dr. Megan Sharma in the soap opera Doctors, earning a British Soap Award nomination for Best Newcomer in 2017. She played the android Flash in Humans from 2016 to 2018 and later appeared in Last Christmas (2019) and Red Notice (2021). Her performance as Lila Pitts in The Umbrella Academy, from 2020 to 2024, drew praise. She also starred in Polite Society (2023) as Lena Khan, appeared in Barbie (2023), and took a lead role in Paris Has Fallen in 2024. She was also a drummer in the band KIN.