Indira Varma

After a brief courtship, Indira married fellow actor Colin Tierney at a private ceremony. They have a daughter, Evelyn, and they live in Hornsey, North London.

Her ancestral home is in Bhopal, India.

Indira and her husband have appeared at many movie premiers and have made many a fashion statement as a couple.

Indira Anne Varma was born on 14 May 1973 in Bath, Somerset, England to an Indian father and Swiss mother of Genoese Italian descent. Both her parents were involved in fine arts and had met each other at art school in London. She was the only child of slightly aged parents who were often mistaken as grandparents, which embarrassed her to some extent.

She grew up with a natural accent due to which she faced some amount of racism as a child. She had to gesticulate a lot while conversing which encouraged her to become a mime artist when she was young. However, she never took up studies in mime.

As she grew up, she got interested in dramatics and graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, where she studied from 1992 to 1995. She was also an active member of the Musical Youth Theatre Company, founded by Greg Vere.

Her first film, ‘Clancy’s Kitchen’ released in 1996. It was made mainly for the British audience.

Her Indian background proved to be her plus point and fetched her a role in Mira Nair directed ‘Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love’ in 1997 and ‘Bride and Prejudice’ alongside Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in 2004.

Her Genoese Italian descent also made her the ideal choice to play the role of Niobe, the young Roman wife of Lucius Vorenus, in the BBC / HBO historic drama series titled ‘Rome’ in 2007 .

She has appeared as the principal character in the ‘BBC Three’ science fiction drama series ‘Torchwood’ as Suzie Costello in the episodes ‘Everything Changes’ and ‘They Keep Killing Suzie’.

Varma had a guest appearance in the US detective drama series ‘Bones’ as the Scotland Yard inspector, Cate Prichard. She also had a character role as Zoe Luther in the first season of the BBC drama, ‘Luther’.

Her major roles in films include Maya in ‘Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love’ (1996), Kitty in ‘Clancy’s Kitchen’ (1997), Ruttie Jinnah in ‘Jinnah’ (1998), Kiran Balraj in ‘Bride and Prejudice’ (2004), Denise Glass in ‘Basic Instinct 2’ (2006) and Sonia in ‘Una’ (2016).

She has appeared in several television serials. Some of her prominent serials are ‘Psychos’ (1999), ‘In a Land of Plenty’ (2001), ‘The Canterbury Tales’ (2003), ‘Love Soup’ (2005), ‘Torchwood’ (2006), ‘Bones’ (2008), ‘Game of Thrones’ (2014) and ‘Paranoid’ (2016).

She has also lent her voice for the video games ‘Dragon Age: Inquisition’ and ‘Mass Effect Andromeda’.