Sarita Catherine Louise Choudhury (born 18 August 1966) is an English actress. Born in Blackheath, an affluent neighborhood in London, to an English mother and a Bengali father, Choudhury was raised in Jamaica, Mexico, Italy and England due to her father's work. She landed her breakout role starring opposite Denzel Washington in Mira Nair's romantic drama film Mississippi Masala (1991) despite never formally studying acting. Since then, she has appeared in numerous American and international film productions, including A Perfect Murder (1998), Spike Lee's She Hate Me (2004), Lady in the Water (2006), Midnight's Children (2012), and The Green Knight (2021).

Filmography

• 2026The Adding Machine — Daisy
• 2025Three Goodbyes — Doctor
• Fallout — Lee Moldaver, Kate Williams / Lee Moldaver
• 2022After Yang — Cleo
• And Just Like That… — Seema Patel
• 2021The Green Knight — Mother
• 2020Evil Eye — Usha
• 2020Here Comes Frieda — Yvonne
• 2020It Snows in Benidorm — Alex
• Little Fires Everywhere — Anita Rees
• Modern Love — Therapist
• 2017After Louie — Maggie
• 2017The Last Photograph — Hannah
• 2016A Hologram for the King — Dr. Zahra Hakeem
• Divorce — Courtney
• 2016Recon
• Blindspot — Sophia Varma
• 2015Love Comes Later
• Marvel's Jessica Jones — Kith Lyonne
• 2015Sweets — Sweets
• 2015The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 — Egeria
• 2014Learning to Drive — Jasleen
• Madam Secretary — Prime Minister Jaya Verma
• 2014The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 — Egeria
• 2013Admission — Rachael
• 2013Innocence — Dr. Vera Kent
• Elementary — Gira Pal
• 2012Gayby — Ushma
• 2012Generation Um... — Lily
• Death in Paradise — Avita
• Homeland — Mira Berenson
• 2009Between Us — Preet
• 2009Coup de Grâce
• Kings — Helen Pardis
• The Good Wife — Simran Verma
• The Philanthropist
• 2008The Accidental Husband — Sunny
• 2008Woman In Burka — Sarita
• Damages — Sleep Therapist
• 2006Lady in the Water — Anna Ran
• 2005L’est de la brúixola — Dabashree
• 2005The War Within — Farida S. Choudhury
• 2004Marmalade — Angelica
• 2004She Hate Me — Song
• 2004The Breakup Artist — Mona
• 2003It Runs in the Family — Suzie
• 2003Rhythm of the Saints — Mariela
• 2002Just a Kiss — Colleen
• 100 Centre Street — Julia Brooks
• 20013 A.M. — Box
• 2001Restless — Jane Talwani
• 2001Trigger Happy — Alison
• Deadline — Sahira Ondaatje
• 1999Gloria — Angela
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Vanessa Blake
• 1998A Perfect Murder — Raquel Martinez
• 1998High Art — Joan
• 1997Dinner Party — Rosie
• 1997Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love — Tara, the Queen
• 1997Story of the Red Rose — Infanta
• 1997Subway Stories — Humera (segment "Honey-Getter")
• 1996Fresh Kill — Shareen Lightfoot
• 1995Down Came a Blackbird — Myrna
• 1995The Perez Family — Josette
• Homicide: Life on the Street — Dr. Gita Kalyani
• 1993The House of the Spirits — Pancha
• 1993Wild West — Rifat
• 1992Voices of the Morning
• 1991Mississippi Masala — Mina
• Law & Order — Nadira Harrington
• Refuge — A...

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2022And Just Like That... The Documentary — Self
• 2015The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 — Self - Egeria
• 2015Words, Maps, Secrets and Other Things — Self - Actress