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name: "Amara Karan"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/amara-karan"
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born: "1 January 1984"
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updated: "2026-09-17T13:12:23.566945+00:00"
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# Amara Karan

Actor. Born 1 January 1984 in Wimbledon, London, UK.

## Details

- **Born:** 1 January 1984, Wimbledon, London, UK
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amara_Karan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q454790, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2496312/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66443

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Night Of*](https://film.one/tv/the-night-of.md) (81)

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## Biography

Amara Karan is a British actress. Born Amara Karunakaran on 1 January 1984 in Wimbledon, London, she is the daughter of Sri Lankan Tamil parents who had emigrated from Zambia.

She studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at St Catherine's College, Oxford, before training at the Arts Educational Schools London. Karan began her career in finance but turned to acting, making her film debut in 2007 as Rita in Wes Anderson's *The Darjeeling Limited* and as Peaches in *St Trinian's*.

Her notable screen roles include appearances in *Doctor Who* (2011), *A Fantastic Fear of Everything* (2012), *Stan Lee's Lucky Man* (2016–2018), *The Night Of* (2016) as Chandra Kapoor, *The Upside* (2019), *The Death & Life of John F. Donovan* (2019) and *House of Spoils* (2024). She has also performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company on stage.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Night Of* (2016), Fi1m 81, as Chandra — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-night-of.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *House of Spoils* (2024), as Hiral Sen
- *Culprits* (2023), series, as Doctor
- *T.I.M.* (2023), as Rose
- *Fired on Mars* (2023), series, as Crystal (voice)
- *Moonhaven* (2022), series, as Indira Mare
- *Hope Street* (2021), series, as DC Leila Hussain
- *The Twilight Zone* (2019), series, as Rena
- *The Death & Life of John F. Donovan* (2019), as Miss Kureshi
- *The Upside* (2019), Acting
- *Bancroft* (2017), series, as Anya Karim
- *The Night Of* (2016), series, as Chandra Kapoor, Chandra — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-night-of.md)
- *Stan Lee's Lucky Man* (2016), series, as Suri Chohan
- *Ambassadors* (2013), series, as Isabel
- *Jadoo* (2013), as Shalini Chandana
- *A Fantastic Fear of Everything* (2012), as Sangeet
- *All in Good Time* (2012), as Vina
- *The Task* (2011), as Toni
- *Kidnap and Ransom* (2011), series, as Carrie Heath
- *St Trinian's* (2007), as Peaches
- *The Darjeeling Limited* (2007), as Rita
- *Doctor Who* (2005), series, as Rita
- *Midsomer Murders* (1997), series, as Adele Paige

## Gallery

- ![Amara Karan](https://film.one/media/person/562424/gallery-80f7e83c3136.jpg) Amara Karan — Vojtaherout com at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Amara_karan_2008.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Amara Karan](https://film.one/media/person/562424/gallery-f7467852ea6a.jpg) Amara Karan — Image via TMDB
- ![Amara Karan](https://film.one/media/person/562424/gallery-7f1c08faf72c.jpg) Amara Karan — Image via TMDB

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