Indira Anne Varma is an English stage and screen actress. She was a member of Musical Youth Theatre Company and graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, in 1995. Her film debut and first major role was in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love. She has gone on to appear in the television series The Canterbury Tales, Rome, Luther, Human Target, and Game of Thrones (as Ellaria Sand).

Filmography

• 2026Frank & Louis — Dr Watts
• The Other Bennet Sister — Mrs. Gardiner
• Young Sherlock
• Coldwater — Fiona
• 2025The Assessment — Ambika
• Creature Commandos — The Bride (voice)
• Disclaimer — Narrator (voice)
• Doctor Who — Duchess of Pemberton
• Dune: Prophecy
• 2024Maya: Birth of a Superhero — Maya (Superhero)
• 2024National Theatre Live: Macbeth — Lady Macbeth
• 2024The Trouble with Jessica — Jessica
• Extrapolations — Gita Mishra
• 2023Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One — DIA
• Obsession — Ingrid Farrow
• 2022National Theatre Live: The Seagull — Arkadina
• Obi-Wan Kenobi — Tala Durith
• The Legend of Vox Machina — Lady Allura Vysoren (voice)
• 2021Crisis — Madira Brower
• INVINCIBLE — Volcanikka (voice)
• 2021Silent Hours — Dr. Catherine Benson
• 2020Faith Healer — Grace
• For Life — Safiya Masry
• Lost Pyramids of the Aztecs — Narrator (Voice)
• Rebuilding Notre-Dame — Narrator - (Voice)
• Spitting Image — Voice Artist
• 2020The One and Only Ivan — Dr. Maya Wilson
• Carnival Row — Piety Breakspear
• 2019Close — Rima Hassine
• 2019National Theatre Live: Present Laughter — Liz Essendine
• 2019Official Secrets — Shami Chakrabarti
• Secrets of Egypt's Valley of the Kings — Narrator (Voice)
• The Capture — Khadija Khan
• This Way Up — Charlotte
• 2018Early Days — Executive Producer
• Patrick Melrose — Anne Moore
• Silent Hours — Dr. Catherine Benson
• 2017The Great British Skinny Dip — Host
• 2017The Machine — Hannah
• 2017Una — Sonia
• 2017Unspeakable — Jo
• New Blood — Lisa Douglas
• Paranoid — Nina Suresh
• The Night Manager — Mayra Cavendish
• Indian Summers — Executive Producer
• 2015National Theatre Live: Man and Superman — Ann Whitefield/Ana
• 2015Vintage Blood — Izzy
• 2014Exodus: Gods and Kings — High Priestess
• 2014Hampstead Theatre At Home: Tiger Country — Vashti
• 2014Titus Andronicus - Live at Shakespeare's Globe — Tamora
• 2013Anna — Judith Morrow
• What Remains — Elaine
• Hunted — Natalie Thorpe
• World Without End — Mattie Wise
• Game of Thrones — Ellaria Sand
• Silk — George Duggan
• Human Target — Ilsa Pucci
• Luther — Zoe Luther
• 2009Inside the Box — Catherine Powell
• Moses Jones — Dolly
• Comanche Moon — Therese Wanz
• 2007Sex and Death 101 — Devon Sever
• The Whistleblowers — Alisha Cole
• 3 lbs — Adrianne Holland
• 2006Basic Instinct 2 — Denise Glass
• Torchwood — Suzie Costello
• 2005A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets — Lucie "The dark lady"
• Bones — Inspector Cate Pritchard
• Broken News — Melanie Bellamy
• Love Soup — Suzanne Daley
• Rome — Niobe of the Voreni
• 2005The Quatermass Experiment — Judith Carroon
• 2004Bride & Prejudice — Kiran
• Donovan — Cara Mathis
• Hustle — D.C.I. Lucy Britford
• Peppa Pig — Female Phone Voice (voice)
• Canterbury Tales — Meena
• Little Britain — Actress, Babysitting Mother, Health Spa Receptionist
• 2003Reversals — Kathy Irwin
• 2002Mad Dogs — Narendra
• Rockface — Alison
• The Inspector Lynley Mysteries — Melissa Booth
• In a Land of Plenty — Sonali
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Bela Khan
• 2001One for the Road — Gila
• 2001The Whistle-Blower — Diane Crossman
• Attachments — Sasha, Sacha
• Other People's Children — Amy
• 2000Zehn wahnsinnige Tage — Ra
• Psychos — Dr Martine Nichol
• 1998Jinnah — Ruttie Jinnah
• 1997Clancy's Kitchen — Kitty
• 1997Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love — Maya
• 1997Sixth Happiness — Amy
• Crucial Tales — Manreet
• Arena — Gila, Various
• Mother Daughter
• The Beacon

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2022Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return — Self - Tala Durith
• Reported Missing — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2010Harold Pinter: A Celebration — Self
• 2005Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment' — Self