Sarita Choudhury

Sarita Choudhury
Choudhury at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival
Born	Sarita Catherine Louise Choudhury (1966-08-18) 18 August 1966 (age 50) Blackheath, London, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1990–present

Sarita Catherine Louise Choudhury (born 18 August 1966) is an English actress, best known for her roles in the Mira Nair-directed feature films Mississippi Masala (1992), The Perez Family (1995) and Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996). In the late 1990s, Choudhury added to her repertoire with supporting roles in the thriller A Perfect Murder, 3 A.M, and the John Cassavetes retread Gloria. In 2002, she starred in Just a Kiss. She played a lesbian virgin in Spike Lee's She Hate Me and acted as Anna Ran in Lady in the Water, a 2006 thriller by M. Night Shyamalan. She also played Egeria in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay part 2 and co-starred with Tom Hanks in the 2016 film A Hologram for the King.

Choudhury was born in Blackheath, London, England, and is of half Bengali Indian and half English descent. Her parents, Julia Patricia (nee Spring) of English descent, and Prabhas Chandra Choudhury, a scientist of Indian Bengali descent, married in 1964 in Lucea, Jamaica. She studied economics and film at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She has one younger brother, Kumar Michael Choudhury, and one older brother, Chandra Paul Choudhury.