Ayesha Dharker

Acting

Born March 16, 1978, Bombay, India

Ayesha Dharker (born March 16, 1978 in Mumbai, India) is an Indian actress. She is known for her performance in the Tamil Indian film, The Terrorist (1999), for which she was awarded Best Artistic Contribution by an Actress at the Cairo International Film Festival and nominated for a Chlotrudis Award and National Film Award for Best Actress. She has also appeared in Hollywood films such as Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and The Mistress of Spices, television series such as Arabian Nights, and the West End and Broadway musical Bombay Dreams. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ayesha Dharker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Filmography

• 2027National Theatre Live: The Jungle Book
• 2026National Theatre Live: Hamlet — Gertrude
• 2024National Theatre Live: The Father and the Assassin — Aai
• 2022National Theatre Live: The Book of Dust — La Belle Sauvage — Marisa Coulter
• 2021CBeebies Presents: Romeo and Juliet — Lady Capulet
• Finding Alice — Tanvi Lal, Tanvi Lal (voice)
• 2020The Father — Dr. Sarai
• 2019Richard II — Aumerle
• 2016The children trapped in Bangladesh's brothel village — Narrator
• Critical — Mrs. Alice Murkherjee
• 2015RSC Live: Othello — Emilia
• Original Comedy Shorts
• Vera — Anika Naidu
• Little Crackers — Mama
• 2010Red Alert: The War Within — Radhaka
• The Indian Doctor — Kamini Sharma
• 2009Jubilee — Rani Mehta
• 2009Mad Sad & Bad — Roxy
• 2007Loins of Punjab Presents — Opama Menon
• 2007Outsourced — Asha
• Waterloo Road — Yasmeen Khan
• 2005Colour Me Kubrick — Dr Stukeley
• Doctor Who — Solana Mercurio
• Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee
• 2005The Mistress of Spices — Hameeda - Haroun's neighbor
• 2002Anita and Me — Mrs. Daljeet Kumar
• Cutting It — Sunni Khadir
• 2002Hideous Man
• 2002Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones — Queen Jamillia
• 2002The House Across The Street — Mala
• 2001The Mystic Masseur — Leela
• Waking the Dead — Mary Sharman
• Arabian Nights — Coral Lips
• 1999Split Wide Open
• 1998The Terrorist — Malli
• 1997Saaz — Kuhu Vrundavan
• 1992City of Joy — Amrita H. Pal
• 1989Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice — Manika Kallatil