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name: "Anjana Vasan"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/anjana-vasan"
fi1m_id: "anjana-vasan"
imdb_id: "nm4696728"
tmdb_id: 1503076
wikidata_id: "Q27898532"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "31 January 1987"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 9
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 9
updated: "2026-10-03T01:59:42.648620+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Anjana Vasan

## Identity

Anjana Vasan

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/anjana-vasan
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** anjana-vasan
- **IMDb ID:** nm4696728
- **TMDB ID:** 1503076
- **Wikidata ID:** Q27898532
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anjana_Vasan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27898532, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4696728/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1503076

Actor. Born 31 January 1987 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 31 January 1987, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- **Active:** 2011–present
- **Also known as:** Aniana Vasan, 安贾纳·瓦桑
- **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as actor, over 9 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 75 (5), 2020s 74 (4)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 74 to 73 across 9 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 7 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 1 of 4 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 7, Comedy 4, Romance 2, Action 1, Adventure 1, Crime 1
- **Screen time:** 9 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,710m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anjana_Vasan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27898532, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4696728/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1503076

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*We Are Lady Parts*](https://film.one/tv/we-are-lady-parts.md) (80)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Mogul Mowgli*](https://film.one/film/mogul-mowgli.md) (79)
- **Disney+:** [*Wicked Little Letters*](https://film.one/film/wicked-little-letters.md) (61)

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## Fi1m on Anjana Vasan

> Anjana Vasan plays people everyone else has decided not to notice, and lets the noticing arrive late. It made her the centre of *We Are Lady Parts* and the best thing in *Wicked Little Letters*; the parts have not yet caught up with her.

In her bedroom, Amina Hussain plays the guitar beautifully. Put anyone in the doorway and she is sick. That is the whole of Anjana Vasan's method in *We Are Lady Parts* (2021), and it is the thing she does that most actors do not: she plays the competence as the surprise. The tics, the apologies and the flinching are the performance we are shown; the ability is kept back until it is needed, and then it arrives all at once. When Amina finally plays a solo, the band sits up. So did we, and we felt slightly foolish for having been as surprised as they were, since the point of the character is that the talent was there all along.

She had been doing it for some years before anyone was watching. There were small television parts from 2011, among them *Fresh Meat*, and stage work after drama school, then a run at the National Theatre and the RSC through the 2010s, and a part in Riz Ahmed's *Mogul Mowgli* (2020). The turn came with Nida Manzoor, who created, wrote and directed *We Are Lady Parts* and put Vasan at the centre of its six episodes. Since then the parts have got larger and darker: Nida Huq in *Black Mirror: Demon 79* (2023), Stella in *A Streetcar Named Desire* on stage the same year, and Gladys Moss in *Wicked Little Letters* (2024). The shape is plain enough, and Vasan has named it herself: "I’ve been underestimated because I’m small, brown and foreign – I take relish in proving people wrong."

Manzoor gets the best out of her because Manzoor surrounds her with people louder than she is and then waits. *Wicked Little Letters* does half of that. Gladys is a Woman Police Officer, a title her colleagues say as though it were a diagnosis, and Vasan gives her a stiff back and the face of someone doing the arithmetic while everyone else shouts. She walks off with the middle of the film. But Thea Sharrock has Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley to attend to, and having established that Gladys is the only competent person in the station, the film never finds her anything harder to be than right. The surprise comes early and nothing follows it.

That is the risk in the method. Competence arriving late is a trick that works once a film, and it needs a script willing to leave her in the corner for an hour first. We would like to see someone cast her as the person who walks in already in charge, and find out what she does when there is nobody left to prove wrong.

## Biography

Anjana Vasan is an actress. She was born on 31 January 1987 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, and moved to Singapore at the age of four. She studied theatre at the National University of Singapore before completing an MA in Acting at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 2012.

Vasan is known for her stage work, for which she has won a Laurence Olivier Award. On television she stars as Amina in the Channel 4 series *We Are Lady Parts* (2021–2024), earning a British Academy Television Award nomination, and has appeared in *Black Mirror* (2023) and *Killing Eve* (2022). Her film credits include Gladys Moss in *Wicked Little Letters* (2023), a reporter in *Spider-Man: Far From Home* (2019) and Sister Claire in *Cyrano* (2021).

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

## On Fi1m (9)

- *Wicked Little Letters* (2024), Fi1m 61, as Gladys Moss — [page](https://film.one/film/wicked-little-letters.md)
- *Cyrano* (2021), Fi1m 75, as Sister Claire — [page](https://film.one/film/cyrano.md)
- *We Are Lady Parts* (2021), Fi1m 80, as Amina Hussain — [page](https://film.one/tv/we-are-lady-parts.md)
- *Mogul Mowgli* (2020), Fi1m 79, as Vaseem — [page](https://film.one/film/mogul-mowgli.md)
- *Sex Education* (2019), Fi1m 78, as Abortion Clinic Protestor — [page](https://film.one/tv/sex-education.md)
- *Spider-Man: Far From Home* (2019), Fi1m 67, as Queens Reporter — [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-far-from-home.md)
- *Killing Eve* (2018), Fi1m 82, as Pam — [page](https://film.one/tv/killing-eve.md)
- *Cinderella* (2015), Fi1m 72, as Maid — [page](https://film.one/film/cinderella.md)
- *Fresh Meat* (2011), Fi1m 74, as Lauren — [page](https://film.one/tv/fresh-meat.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

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

- *Leftover Women* (2026), as Erin
- *True Love and Wormholes* (2026), as Maggie
- *Towards Zero* (2025), series, as Mary Aldin
- *Wicked Little Letters* (2024), as Gladys Moss — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/film/wicked-little-letters.md)
- *Cyrano* (2021), as Sister Claire — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/cyrano.md)
- *Princess & Peppernose* (2021), Actor
- *We Are Lady Parts* (2021), series, as Amina Hussain — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/we-are-lady-parts.md)
- *National Theatre Live: Dara* (2020), as Hira Bai
- *Mogul Mowgli* (2020), as Vaseem — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/mogul-mowgli.md)
- *A Doll's House* (2019), as Niru
- *Spider-Man: Far From Home* (2019), as Queens Reporter — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-far-from-home.md)
- *Sex Education* (2019), series, as Abortion Clinic Protestor — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/sex-education.md)
- *Lady Parts* (2018), as Amina
- *Hang Ups* (2018), series, as Zahra Alsaadi
- *The Children Act* (2018), as Kate
- *Killing Eve* (2018), series, as Pam — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/killing-eve.md)
- *King Lear: Live at Shakespeare's Globe* (2017), as Cordelia
- *Pls Like* (2017), series, as Competition Vlogger
- *A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe* (2016), as Hermia
- *National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers* (2015), as Manju Waghekar
- *Cinderella* (2015), as Maid — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/cinderella.md)
- *National Theatre Live: Macbeth* (2013), as Weird Sister
- *Call the Midwife* (2012), series, as Tripti Valluk — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/call-the-midwife.md)
- *Black Mirror* (2011), series, as Nida Huq, Space Cop — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/black-mirror.md)
- *Fresh Meat* (2011), series, as Lauren — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/fresh-meat.md)
- *Amri*, as Indira Sher-Gil

## Gallery

- ![Anjana Vasan](https://film.one/media/person/11959/gallery-23fefc8e3853.jpg) Anjana Vasan — Mike Watts, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Anjana_Vasan_2017.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Anjana Vasan](https://film.one/media/person/11959/gallery-ae26c93d6c65.jpg) Anjana Vasan — Image via TMDB
- ![Anjana Vasan](https://film.one/media/person/11959/gallery-5a711bf80691.jpg) Anjana Vasan — Image via TMDB

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