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Sarita Catherine Louise Choudhury (born 18 August 1966) is a British actress, known for her role as Mina in the Mira Nair-directed feature film Mississippi Masala (1991).[2][3] Choudhury has played roles in American and international films and television shows such as in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996), A Perfect Murder (1998), 3 A.M. (2001), and the John Cassavetes remake Gloria (1999). In 2002, she starred in Just a Kiss. She played a lesbian virgin in Spike Lee's She Hate Me (2004) and acted as Anna Ran in Lady in the Water, a 2006 thriller by M. Night Shyamalan.[4][5] She also played Egeria in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015) and co-starred with Tom Hanks in the 2016 film A Hologram for the King.[6] In 2021, Choudhury joined the cast of HBO Max's Sex and the City revival television series And Just Like That....[7]

Sarita Choudhury
Choudhury at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival
Born	Sarita Catherine Louise Choudhury (1966-08-18) 18 August 1966 (age 56) Blackheath, London, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1990–present
Children	1[1]

Early life

Choudhury was born in Blackheath, London, England, and is of half Indian and half English descent. Her mother, Julia Patricia (née Spring), is English, and her father, Prabhas Chandra Choudhury, a scientist, is Indian. They married in 1964 in Lucea, Jamaica. Choudhury studied economics and film at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She has one younger brother, Kumar Michael Choudhury, and one older brother, Chandra Paul Choudhury.[8][9]

Career

Choudhury starred opposite Denzel Washington in the 1991 film Mississippi Masala, for which she received her Screen Actors Guild (SAG) card.[10] She was still working as a waitress in Manhattan's East Village to make ends meet while the film was in theatres.[10] After her debut film Mississippi Masala became an art house hit, Choudhury acted as a Pakistani country-western singer in Wild West (1992), a Chilean maid who is raped in Bille August's adaptation of The House of the Spirits, and a lesbian mother in Fresh Kill.

Choudhury appeared on Homicide: Life on the Street for five episodes during the 1998–99 season as Dr. Kalyani, a medical examiner. Choudhury played the role of the King's mistress, Helen Pardis, in the NBC drama Kings. The series was based upon the Biblical story of King David but set in modern times. Her character's Biblical counterpart was Rizpah, a concubine of King Saul.

She worked with independent film director Sona Jain in For Real. In an interview with The Statesman she said, "After Mississippi Masala and Kama Sutra I started getting offers in New York... doing theatres... I just went with the flow. One fine day, I thought that I haven't been back to India, haven't shot there and that's something I wanted to. There were Bollywood offers but it was not until Sona's script that made me look at India."[11] The film had a commercial release in September 2010.

She appears as character Saul Berenson's wife, Mira in the TV series Homeland. In 2011, she appeared in the joint British/French TV series Death in Paradise. Choudhury also had a brief cameo the 2013 comedy Admission. She appeared in the films The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014) and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015), as President Snow's assistant, Egeria. In 2015-2016, she appeared as the Deputy White House Political Director Sophia Varma in the American crime drama Blindspot. In 2016 she starred with Tom Hanks in the film A Hologram for the King, and in 2021 she appeared in the film The Green Knight with Dev Patel.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Mississippi Masala	Meena
1992	Wild West	Rifat
1993	The House of the Spirits	Pancha Garcia
1994	Fresh Kill	Shareen Lightfoot
1995	The Perez Family	Josette
1996	Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love	Tara, the Queen
1998	High Art	Joan	Uncredited
	A Perfect Murder	Raquel Martinez
	Restless	Jane Talwani
1999	Gloria	Angela
2000	Come On	Sarita
2001	3 A.M.	Box
	Trigger Happy	Alison
2002	Just a Kiss	Colleen
	Refuge	Girl
2003	Rhythm of the Saints	Mariela
	It Runs in the Family	Suzie
2004	Marmalade	Angela
	She Hate Me	Song
	The Breakup Artist	Mona
	Indocumentados	Mrs. Guerrero
2005	The War Within	Farida S. Choudhury
	L'est de la brúixola	Dabashree
2006	Lady in the Water	Anna Ran
2008	The Accidental Husband	Sunny
2009	Entre nos	Preet
	For Real	Priya
2011	Aazaan	Menon
2012	Gayby	Ushma
	Generation Um...	Lily
	Midnight's Children	Prime Minister
	BMW: Bombay's Most Wanted
2013	Admission	Rachel
	Innocence	Dr. Vera Kent
2014	The Disinherited	Anna
	Learning To Drive	Jasleen
	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1	Egeria
	Roman Buildings	Sarita
2015	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2	Egeria
	Sweets	Sweets
2016	A Hologram for the King	Zahra
2017	The Last Photograph	Hannah
	After Louie	Maggie
2020	Evil Eye	Usha Kharti
	It Snows in Benidorm	Alex
2021	After Yang	Cleo
	The Green Knight	Morgan le Fey

Short Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Dinner Party	Rosie
	Story of the Red Rose	Infanta
2004	Exactly	Lily
2006	Lady in a Box	Ms. Pullman
2008	Woman in Burka	Sarita
2009	Coup de Grâce
2012	Monarchs and Men	Nadzia
2013	Give Into the Night	Veena
2015	Love Comes Later
2016	Wake O Wake	Lila
2019	Human Terrain	Adelah Nasser
2020	Here Comes Frieda	Yvonne

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Down Came a Blackbird	Myrna	Television film
1997	Subway Stories	Humera	Television film; segment: "Honey-Getter"
1998–1999	Homicide: Life on the Street	Dr. Kalyani	Recurring
2000–2001	Deadline	Sahira Ondaatje	3 episodes
2001–2002	100 Centre Street	Julia Brooks	Recurring
2004	Law & Order	Nadira Harrington	Episode: "Paradigm"
2004	PBS Hollywood Presents	Charmaine	Episode: "Cop Shop"
2007	Damages	Sleep Therapist	Episode: "She Spat at Me"
2009	Kings	Helen Pardis	Recurring
2009	The Philanthropist	Rhada Shivpuri	Episode: "Kashmir"
2009	Possible Side Effects	Callie	Television film
2010	Mercy	Dr. Carrozzi	Episode: "Wake Up, Bill"
2010	The Good Wife	Simran Verma	Episode: "Mock"
2010	Bored to Death	Lakshmi	Episode: "Forty-Two Down!"
2011	Bar Karma	Sarita	Episode: "Man Walks Out of a Bar"
2011	Death in Paradise	Avita	Episode: "Music of Murder"
2011–2017	Homeland	Mira Berenson	Main role (season 3); recurring (seasons 1, 4); guest (seasons 2, 6)
2015–2016	Blindspot	Sofia Varma	Recurring
2016	Elementary	Gira Pal	Episode: "A Study in Charlotte"
2016	Divorce	Courtney	Episode: "Church"
2016–2017	Madam Secretary	Prime Minister Jaya Verma	2 episodes
2018	The Path	Lilith	Main role (season 3)
2018	Instinct	Mayor Myers	2 episodes
2018	Strangers		3 episodes
2019	Jessica Jones	Kith Lyonne	Main role (season 3)
2019	Modern Love	Therapist	Episode: "Rallying to Keep the Game Alive"
2020	Mira, Royal Detective	Great-Aunt Rupa (voice)
2020	Little Fires Everywhere	Anita Rees	3 episodes
2021	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Vanessa Blake	Episode: "In the Year We All Fell Down"[12]
2021–present	And Just Like That...	Seema Patel	Main role; 7 Episodes
2022	Ramy	Olivia	Guest; 3 Episodes

See also

• Indians in the New York City metropolitan area

References

External links

• Sarita Choudhury at IMDb
• Rediff nterview
• Heyoka Magazine nterview with John LeKay
• Eastern Eye Interview

На других языках

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[de] Sarita Choudhury

Sarita Catherine Louise Choudhury (* 18. August 1966 in London) ist eine britische Schauspielerin.

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- [en] Sarita Choudhury

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[ru] Чоудхури, Сарита

Сари́та Кэ́трин Луи́з Чоудху́ри (англ. Sarita Catherine Louise Choudhury; 18 августа 1966, Блэкхит, Лондон, Великобритания) — английская актриса.

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