Indira Varma aka Indira biography

Real biography: Indira Varma is an English actress. Before her rise to fame she was a member of Musical Youth Theatre Company. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London in 1995.She was the only child of an Indian father and a Swiss mother who was part Genoese Italian.

Career

Varma has had a number television and film roles, including Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1997) and Bride and Prejudice (2004), and the young Roman wife Niobe during the first season of BBC/HBO's historical drama series Rome. In 2006 she played Suzie Costello in the first and eighth episodes, "Everything Changes" and "They Keep Killing Suzie", of BBC Three's science-fiction drama series Torchwood. She appeared as Dr. Adrienne Holland in the CBS medical drama 3 lbs. which premiered on November 14, 2006 and was cancelled on November 30, 2006 due to poor ratings.

In 2007 she appeared in all six episodes of the ITV series The Whistleblowers, and in 2008 she guest starred on an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Her next project will be a starring role in the movie The Finest (2009).