Английская Википедия:Anjana Vasan

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Anjana Vasan (born 31 January 1987) is a Singaporean actress and singer-songwriter based in London of Tamil origin. She is known for her stage work, winning a Laurence Olivier Award, and her role in the Channel 4 sitcom We Are Lady Parts, for which she was nominated a British Academy Television Award. She starred in the Black Mirror episode "Demon 79" in 2023.

Early life and education

Vasan was born in Chennai, India to a Tamil Hindu family and moved to Singapore when she was four. She took theatre studies at the National University of Singapore before relocating to the United Kingdom, where she graduated in 2012 with a Master of Arts in Acting from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.

Career

In 2011, Vasan made her television debut as Lauren in two episodes of the Channel 4 comedy-drama Fresh Meat. After completing drama school the following year, she had small roles in the National Theatre Wales production of The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Much Ado About Nothing, as well as Golgotha at the Tristan Bates Theatre in London.

Vasan played a witch in Kenneth Branagh's Macbeth at the Manchester International Festival and for its New York run at the Park Avenue Armory. She made her feature film debut with a small role in the live-action version of Cinderella (2015).

In 2018, Vasan played Zahra Alsaadi in the Channel 4 sitcom Hang Ups and had a role in the anthology film London Unplugged. She played Rosa in Summer and Smoke at the Almeida Theatre and Duke of York's Theatre, marking her West End debut. This was followed by roles Rutherford and Son at the National Theatre and A Doll's House at the Lyric Hammersmith, the latter of which earned her an Evening Standard Theatre Award nomination.

Vasan starred in the 2020 Riz Ahmed-written and starring drama film Mogul Mowgli. She then reprised her role from the 2018 short Lady Parts as lead guitar player Amina in We Are Lady Parts on Channel 4 in 2021. For her performance, Vasan received nominations at the British Academy Television Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, and Gotham Awards. She also appeared in Joe Wright's Cyrano.

Vasan joined the main cast of the BBC spy thriller Killing Eve for its fourth and final series as Pam. She returned to the stage as Stella Kowalski in the London revival of A Streetcar Named Desire opposite Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran. The production opened at the Almeida Theatre in 2022 and moved to the West End's Phoenix Theatre in 2023.

Her performance as Stella won Vasan the 2023 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

In 2023, Vasan starred in the Black Mirror episode "Demon 79" as Nida Huq, a woman in 1970s Britain who discovers a talisman. She had previously made a brief appearance in a previous Black Mirror episode, "Nosedive".

She has an upcoming role in the comedy film Wicked Little Letters.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2013	Macbeth	Third Sister	National Theatre Live
2015	Cinderella	Maid
	Behind the Beautiful Forevers	Manju Waghekar	National Theatre Live
2016	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Hermia	Recording
2017	Double Act	Manager	Short film
	The Children Act	Kate
	King Lear	Cordelia	Recording
2019	Spider-Man: Far From Home	Reporter
2020	Mogul Mowgli	Vaseem
	Dara	Hira Bai	National Theatre Live
2021	Cyrano	Sister Claire
2023	Wicked Little Letters	Gladys Moss

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2011	Fresh Meat	Lauren	2 episodes
2016	Call the Midwife	Tripti Valluk	Series 5, episode 8
2017	Ill Behaviour	Shazia	Miniseries
2018	Lady Parts	Amina	Comedy short
	Hang Ups	Zahra Alsaadi	5 episodes
2019	Brexit: The Uncivil War	Interviewer	Television film
	Pls Like	Lorna	Episode: "Kids"
	Sex Education	Abortion clinic protester	Series 1, episode 3n
	Temple	Katie	2 episodes
2021	We Are Lady Parts	Amina	Main role
2022	Killing Eve	Pam	7 episodes
2023	Black Mirror	Nida Huq	Episode: "Demon 79"

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2012	The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning		National Theatre Wales, Cardiff
	Much Ado About Nothing	Servant	Royal Shakespeare Company
	Golgotha	Loretta	Tristan Bates Theatre, London
2013–2014	Macbeth	Third Sister	Manchester International Festival / Park Avenue Armory, New York
2014	The Taming of the Shrew	Tranio	RSC tour
	Behind the Beautiful Forevers	Manju Waghekar	National Theatre, London
2015	Dara	Hira Bai
	Image of An Unknown Young Woman	Leyla	Gate Theatre, London
2016	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Hermia	Globe Theatre, London
2017	Life of Galileo	Virginia	Young Vic, London
	King Lear	Cordelia	Globe Theatre, London
2018	An Adventure	Jyoti	Bush Theatre, London
2018–2019	Summer and Smoke	Rosa/Nellie/Rosemary	Almeida Theatre and Duke of York's Theatre, London
2019	Rutherford and Son	Mary	National Theatre, London
	A Doll's House	Niru	Lyric Hammersmith, London
2022–2023	A Streetcar Named Desire	Stella Kowalski	Almeida Theatre and Phoenix Theatre, London

Audio

• Goblin Market (BBC)
• The Man Who Wore Sanitary Pads (BBC)

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2019	Evening Standard Theatre Award	Best Actress	A Doll's House	Шаблон:Nom
2021	Gotham Award	Outstanding Performance in New Series	We Are Lady Parts	Шаблон:Nom
2022	British Academy Television Award	Best Female Comedy Performance		Шаблон:Nom
	Independent Spirit Award	Best Female Performance in a New Scripted Series		Шаблон:Nom
2023	Laurence Olivier Award	Best Actress in a Supporting Role	A Streetcar Named Desire	Шаблон:Won
	Evening Standard Theatre Award	Best Actress		Шаблон:Won
2024	WhatsOnStage Awards	Best Supporting Performer in a Play		Шаблон:Pending

Discography

Albums, EPs

• Too Dark For Country (released 7 October 2017 - EP)
• Strange Country Jukebox (released 26 July 2021)

External links

• Шаблон:IMDb name
• Anjana Vasan at Bandcamp

Шаблон:Singapore-actor-stub