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Amara Karunakaran[1] (born 1984), known professionally as Amara Karan, is an English actress who made her film début as Rita in Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited. The film premièred at the 2007 Venice Film Festival. Karan's second film role was as schoolgirl Peaches in the 2007 film St Trinian's.[2]

Amara Karan
Karan during the Olympic Torch Relay in London (2008)
Born	Amara Karunakaran 1984 (age 37–38) Wimbledon, London, England
Years active	2007–present

She made her stage début in 2008 as Jessica in an RSC production of The Merchant of Venice and as Bianca in an RSC production of The Taming of the Shrew. With the latter, she made her West End debut at the Novello Theatre. In 2016, she co-starred on the HBO crime drama mini-series, The Night Of. In 2012 she co-starred in the film A Fantastic Fear of Everything.

Background

Karan was born in Wimbledon, London in 1984 to Sri Lankan Tamil parents who had emigrated from Zambia to Britain two years before she was born. She was brought up in Wimbledon and attended Wimbledon High School.[3]

Karan went on to study at St Catherine's College, Oxford[4] and while there began acting in amateur plays including Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World at the Burton Taylor Theatre for which she received rave reviews[5] and was also singled out for her performance in When We Are Married at the Old Fire Station theatre.[6] During her time at Oxford, Karan wrote, directed, produced, and acted in a short film, By Myself, which came in second place in the 2002 Shoestring Shorts Competition.[7]

She began her career as an investment banker (at Hawkpoint and CIBC World Markets) specialising in mergers and acquisitions,^{[citation needed]} before studying for an MA degree in acting^{[citation needed]} at The Arts Educational Schools London.[8]

She carried the 2008 Olympic Torch during its time in London.[9]

Since 2016 she has been in a relationship with the actor Jamie de Courcey.[10]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
2007	The Darjeeling Limited	Rita
2007	St Trinian's	Peaches
2011	The Task	Toni
2012	All in Good Time	Vina
2012	A Fantastic Fear of Everything	Sangeet
2013	Jadoo[11]	Shalini
2017	Those Four Walls	Jasmine
2018	The Death and Life of John F. Donovan	Mrs. Kureishi

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	The Bill	Abha Chaudhari	Season 23, Episode 46 "Match Day Violence"
2008	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Princess Shaista	Season 11, Episode 2 "Cat Among the Pigeons"[12]
2011	Doctor Who	Rita	Season 6, Episode 11 "The God Complex"
2011–2012	Kidnap and Ransom	Carrie Heath, Dominic's assistant	5 of 6 episodes
2013	Ambassadors	Isabel	Main cast, three-episode serial
2014	Goodness Gracious Me	various roles	Reunion Special
2016–2018	Stan Lee's Lucky Man[13]	DS Suri Chohan	28 episodes
2016	The Night Of	Chandra Kapoor	6 episodes
2017	Bancroft	Anya Karim	4 episodes
2019	The Twilight Zone	Rena	Episode 1 "The Comedian"
2021	Midsomer Murders	Adele Paige	Episode 1 "Scarecrow Murders"
2021–present	Hope Street	DC Leila Hussain	Main cast
2022	Moonhaven	Indira Mare	Main cast

Radio

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	The Making of a Marchioness	Lady Agatha	Frances Hodgson Burnett for BBC Radio 4
2017	The Beard	Thea Collins	Timothy X Atack for BBC Radio 4

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	The Taming of the Shrew	Bianca	Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-Upon-Avon and on tour
2008	The Merchant of Venice	Jessica	Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-Upon-Avon and on tour
2009	The Taming of the Shrew	Bianca	Royal Shakespeare Company, West End, The Novello Theatre
2012	Much Ado About Nothing	Hero
2022	Bloody Difficult Women	Gina Miller	Riverside Studios, Hammersmith [14]

Video games

Year	Title	Role
2017	Dark Souls III	Sister Friede

References

External links

• Amara Karan at IMDb 
• Amara Karan at AllMovie
• Amara Karan article
• JADOO – Amara Karan – Complete Interview

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Amara Karunakaran[1] (* 1984 in London), bekannt als Amara Karan, ist eine britische Schauspielerin.

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