Poorna Jagannathan was born on December 22,1972 and is an American producer and actress of Indian descent.
14 Facts About Poorna Jagannathan
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Poorna Jagannathan co-conceived, produced and acted in the play Nirbhaya, written and directed by Yael Farber that won the 2013 Amnesty International Award.
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Poorna Jagannathan was featured among the top 10 in Femina magazine's "India's 50 most beautiful women" in 2012, and Verve magazine named her among the top 50 most powerful women in India in 2014.
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Poorna Jagannathan grew up in Pakistan, Ireland, India, Brazil and Argentina and speaks Tamil, Hindi, English, Spanish and Portuguese.
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Poorna Jagannathan attended the University of Brasilia before graduating in journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park.
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Poorna Jagannathan went on to train at The Barrow Group where she is currently a board and company member and cites The Barrow Group as the place she learned how to become a professional, working actor.
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Poorna Jagannathan has appeared on several TV shows like Big Little Lies, Better Call Saul and Ramy.
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Poorna Jagannathan won critical acclaim for her role as a spunky, irreverent journalist in the 2011 Bollywood film Delhi Belly.
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In September 2016, it was announced that Poorna Jagannathan had joined the cast of Gypsy as a series regular.
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In May 2018, Deadline announced that Poorna Jagannathan had joined the cast of the HBO series Big Little Lies as a recurring character named Katie Richmond.
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Poorna Jagannathan's delivery is the bedrock of the episode's sense of humor.
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Poorna Jagannathan is currently a series regular on Mindy Kaling's Never Have I Ever, which debuted in 2020 and went on to win the People's Choice Awards for all three seasons consecutively.
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In 2018, Poorna Jagannathan lent her voice to three podcasts in the Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls series, based on The New York Times Best Seller list books by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo.
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Poorna Jagannathan collaborated with internationally acclaimed playwright and director, Yael Farber, to build the play.