Indira Varma

Indira Varma is one of those actors who quietly makes everything better just by showing up. Raised in Bath by an Indian father and a Swiss-Italian mother, she brings a rare combination of classical British stage training and an utterly singular screen presence that very few actors can pull off. I first really noticed her in Rome, where she played Niobe with such grounded emotional intelligence that she held her own against the show's epic scale without ever seeming to try too hard. Then came Ellaria Sand in Game of Thrones — magnetic, dangerous, and genuinely heartbreaking by the end. What I love most about her is that she never phones it in; even in smaller roles she's fully committed, and her eyes do half the work before a single word lands. A serious talent who deserves way more top billing than she's ever gotten.

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Name (English)

Indira Varma

Name (Japanese)

インディラ・ヴァルマ

Reading

いんでぃら・ゔぁるま

Born

September 27, 1973 (age 53)

Origin

Bath, United Kingdom

Occupation

stage actor / film actor / television actor / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Ox

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indira%20Varma
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q463585

Tags

• stage actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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