Anjli Mohindra
/Actor/Writer
Photo by DAVID REISS
Anjli Mohindra grew up in Nottingham and trained at The Television Workshop – an East Midlands-based training centre for young acting talent.
Her first major TV role was as Rani Chandra in CBBC’s The Sarah Jane Adventures – a part she played for four series between 2008-2011.
She has since had roles in many television dramas including Cucumber (Channel 4), written by Russell T Davies, The Boy with The Topknot (BBC Two), The Dead Room (BBC Four) opposite Simon Callow and Wild Bill (ITV) alongside Hollywood star Rob Lowe.
She starred as Nadia in the BAFTA-winning BBC/Netflix thriller Bodyguard, a controversial role for which she received critical acclaim and in 2021 starred in Vigil - the BBC’s biggest new drama of the year - alongside Suranne Jones.
She recently featured in Netflix film Munich: The Edge of War with Jeremy Irons and George MacKay and starred in The Lazarus Project - a thriller for Sky alongside Paapa Essiedu as well as The Suspect for ITV with Aidan Turner.
Most recently she led folk horror series The Red King (Alibi) and starred alongside Romola Garai, Deborah Findlay and Gina McKee in the critically-acclaimed play The Years at the Almeida.
Anjli recently secured a development deal with Urban Myth Films to create a TV series based on the life Princess Sophia Duleep Singh - the daughter of the last Maharajah of Punjab and a goddaughter of Queen Victoria.
Anjli lives in London.
“Full credit in particular to Anjli Mohindra, who played Nadia and who managed to say so much with her eyes throughout the series. From the terrified naivety she presented at the start, to the calculated zealotry she revealed at the end. ”
“Anjli Mohindra deserves special recognition for that amazing transformation, a reverse superhero, and for a fabulously evil future ahead of her in Bodyguard – cast against type, as the best villains sometimes are”
