Ayesha Dharker
| Ayesha Dharker | |
|---|---|
| Born |
16 March 1977 Bombay, India |
| Occupation | Actress |
Ayesha Dharker (born 16 March 1977) is a British-Indian actress. She is known for her performance in the Tamil film The Terrorist (1997), for which she was awarded Best Artistic Contribution by an Actress at the Cairo International Film Festival and nominated for a National Film Award for Best Actress. She has also appeared in Hollywood films such as Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, Outsourced and The Mistress of Spices, television series such as Arabian Nights, the West End and Broadway musical Bombay Dreams.
Ayesha Dharker was born in Bombay,India, the daughter of Imtiaz Dharker, a noted poet, artist and documentary film-maker, and Anil Dharker, a columnist and an ex-editor of Debonair. Her father is from India and her mother, born in Lahore, was brought up in Scotland, United Kingdom.
In May 2010, she married her British boyfriend Robert Taylor in St Giles Cripplegate.
Dharker made her screen debut in the 1989 François Villiers film Manika, une vie plus tard. Dharker subsequently went on to star in many American, French and Indian films. She has had many television roles in the UK, particularly in Cutting It and Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee, in which she co-starred with Meera Syal.
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