Lolita Chakrabarti

Lolita Chakrabarti (born 1 June 1969 in Kingston upon Hull) is a British actress and writer.

Chakrabarti graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in 1990.

Her screen credits include Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands, The Casual Vacancy, Jekyll and Hyde, Intruders (2011), Bodies, Vera, Outnumbered, Hustle, Extras Christmas Special, William and Mary, Fortysomething, Holby City, Silent Witness, and as WPC Jamila Blake in the long running ITV drama The Bill.

Her theatre credits include The Great Game: Afghanistan for the Tricycle Theatre (2009), Last Seen for the Almeida (2009) (which she co-wrote), Free Outgoing for the Royal Court (2008) and John Gabriel Borkman for the Donmar Warehouse (2007).

Chakrabarti's writing credits include Red Velvet, a play about Ira Aldridge, an African-American actor at the centre of controversy in 1833 when he takes over from Edmund Kean in Othello at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. Premiered in 2012 at the Tricycle Theatre, London, it returned to a sold out run at The Tricycle in 2014 before transferring to St Ann's Warehouse in New York. It returned again to the Garrick Theatre in London's West End as part of Kenneth Branagh's season in 2016.

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