1. Anjli Mohindra is an English stage, screen and voice-over actress and writer.
23 Facts About Anjli Mohindra
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Anjli Mohindra is best known for her television roles as Rani Chandra in the Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures and would-be suicide bomber Nadia Ali in Bodyguard.
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Anjli Mohindra grew up in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, apart from a four-year period on a military base in Germany, where she was the only ethnic minority child out of 2,000 students at an Armed Forces school.
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Anjli Mohindra's father was raised in the Indian diaspora in British Kenya, when it was a crown colony, where he had a clerical job in the British Army for several years.
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Anjli Mohindra's mother was born in Punjab, India and arrived in the UK from India at the age of 18 to further her education, working variously as a court clerk, bank manager, postmistress, pub owner and English tutor.
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Anjli Mohindra attended Jesse Gray Primary School and West Bridgford School.
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Anjli Mohindra later trained in acting at the Central Junior Television Workshop in Nottingham.
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Anjli Mohindra's television acting career began in an episode of ITV's long-running soap opera Coronation Street in 2005, where she played Dev Alahan's daughter Shareen after being turned down for another, larger role.
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Anjli Mohindra appeared in two episodes of the comedy drama Beaver Falls.
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Anjli Mohindra played her first regular role as aspiring journalist Rani Chandra in the Doctor Who spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures on children's television channel CBBC.
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Anjli Mohindra was introduced in the second series as a replacement for Yasmin Paige, who left the series to complete her GCSEs.
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Anjli Mohindra continued to play the role in the subsequent three series until the last episode of the show, broadcast in October 2011.
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In 2012, Anjli Mohindra appeared in an episode of the longest-running medical drama series in the world, Casualty.
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Anjli Mohindra played a leading role in four 15-minute episodes of the BBC iPlayer romcom My Jihad, described as "a tender and funny love story exploring the unfolding relationship between a young Muslim couple".
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Anjli Mohindra then made her feature film debut in Miss You Already, starring Toni Collette and Drew Barrymore, followed by supporting roles in two ITV shows, Paranoid and Bancroft.
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In 2018, Anjli Mohindra played Nadia Ali in Jed Mercurio's political thriller Bodyguard.
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Anjli Mohindra initially declined the role until she learned there would be more depth to her character than she assumed.
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Anjli Mohindra starred as an ambitious radio producer in Mark Gatiss's take on the classic Christmas ghost story, The Dead Room, alongside Simon Callow.
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In 2019, Anjli Mohindra appeared as a regular lead in the ITV drama Wild Bill.
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Anjli Mohindra later played the Queen of the Skithra in the Doctor Who episode "Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror".
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Since 2022, Anjli Mohindra has reprised her role of Rani from The Sarah Jane Adventures in several Doctor Who audio drama spin-offs from Big Finish Productions, as well as in three episodes of Doctor Who: Redacted, a ten-part podcast drama from BBC Sounds featuring the Thirteenth Doctor, played by Jodie Whittaker.
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Anjli Mohindra has played other characters in audio dramas featuring the Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Doctors over the years.
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Anjli Mohindra won a place on the Royal Court's Young Writers' Programme in 2016.