--- name: "Dichen Lachman" canonical: "https://film.one/person/dichen-lachman" fi1m_id: "dichen-lachman" imdb_id: "nm1901842" tmdb_id: 94797 wikidata_id: "Q242204" roles: ["Actor"] born: "22 February 1982" reviewed_on_fi1m: 4 average_fi1m_score: 64 average_as: "actor" average_over: 4 updated: "2026-10-22T02:50:51.273084+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." --- # Dichen Lachman ## Identity Dichen Lachman - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dichen-lachman - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** dichen-lachman - **IMDb ID:** nm1901842 - **TMDB ID:** 94797 - **Wikidata ID:** Q242204 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichen_Lachman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q242204, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1901842/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/94797 Actor. Born 22 February 1982 in Kathmandu, Nepal. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 22 February 1982, Kathmandu, Nepal - **Active:** 2009–present - **Also known as:** دیچن لچمن - **Average Fi1m score:** 64, as actor, over 4 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 66 (1), 2020s 64 (3) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 64 to 62 across 4 titles - **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 0 of 2 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Adventure 2, Drama 2, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 2, Science Fiction 2, Action 1, Action & Adventure 1 - **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $1,401m across 2 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichen_Lachman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q242204, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1901842/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/94797 ## Coming up - *The Legend of Zelda* (2027-04-28), as Impa ## Streaming the US now - **Apple TV:** [*Severance*](https://film.one/tv/severance.md) (86) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Dichen Lachman > Dichen Lachman is cast, again and again, to fight, and is most interesting when she does not move. As Ms. Casey in *Severance* she stands still, speaks evenly and unsettles a whole floor; most of her career has not asked her for that. Ms. Casey, the wellness counsellor in *Severance* (2022), speaks in a low, even voice and hardly moves. She reads out kind statements to people who have no memory of their lives outside the building, and she does it without warmth and without cruelty, which is worse than either. We found her the most disquieting person on the severed floor, because the voice never rises and the face never explains, so we stopped listening to what she said and started watching for what she wanted. Our own review, we should admit, gave the credit to Adam Scott and the office itself; she was doing her work in the background of it. The background is where Lachman has mostly been. She started on *Neighbours* (2005–2007) as Katya Kinski, then left Australian television for Los Angeles. "I didn't see myself in that space," she said later, and the space she found instead was American genre television. Joss Whedon gave her the first substantial part, Sierra in *Dollhouse* (2009–2010), a woman rented out with a new personality loaded in each week. We scored the series 66 and thought it found its nerve late; when we listed the discoveries, the one we named was Enver Gjokaj, as the doll mooning after her, not Lachman herself. Then came a long run of recurring parts, Anya in *The 100* (2014), Jiaying in *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.* (2015), Reileen Kawahara in *Altered Carbon* (2018), and franchise work in *Jurassic World Dominion* (2022) and *Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes* (2024). The pattern is plain. She is physically capable and she is cast for it: the fight choreography, the stunt work, the leader of the hostile tribe. She says she enjoys that side of the job, and there is no reason to doubt her. But the notices that praise her, and we agree with them, praise restraint rather than movement. The flat delivery, the held pose, the sense of someone operating a body they have been issued. *Dollhouse* taught her to play a person who has been overwritten, and a decade later Ben Stiller's *Severance* found the use for it. Science fiction has kept her working and has also kept her in the second rank of the credits, and those are the same fact. What we have not seen is Lachman carrying anything. Two of her best-known series are on our books and in neither did we find ourselves writing about her at length, which is a description of the parts rather than of the actor. Start with *Severance*, in the slow early episodes where the office is being built around Scott and she is simply standing at the edge of it. Then *Dollhouse*, from the point where it stops apologising for itself. Someone should write her a lead in which nobody throws a punch. ## Biography Dichen Lachman is an Australian actress and model. She was born on 22 February 1982 in Kathmandu, Nepal, and moved to Adelaide, Australia, with her family as a child. She attended the University of Adelaide before leaving to pursue acting, studying drama in Sydney. Lachman began her career with a role as Katya Kinski in the Australian soap opera *Neighbours* (2005–2007). She gained wider recognition as Sierra in Joss Whedon's *Dollhouse* (2009–2010) and as Jiaying in *Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.* (2014–2020). Her other television credits include *Altered Carbon* (2018–2020). In film, she has appeared in *Jurassic World Dominion* (2022) as Soyona Santos and *Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes* (2024). She plays wellness counsellor Ms. Casey in the series *Severance* (2022–present). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, themoviedb.org.* ## On Fi1m (4) - *Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes* (2024), Fi1m 64, as Korina — [page](https://film.one/film/kingdom-of-the-planet-of-the-apes.md) - *Jurassic World Dominion* (2022), Fi1m 42, as Soyona Santos — [page](https://film.one/film/jurassic-world-dominion.md) - *Severance* (2022), Fi1m 86, as Ms. Casey — [page](https://film.one/tv/severance.md) - *Dollhouse* (2009), Fi1m 66, as Sierra — [page](https://film.one/tv/dollhouse.md) ## Complete filmography (40) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *The Legend of Zelda* (2027), as Impa - *Other Mommy* (2026), Actor — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/other-mommy.md) - *Vampires of the Velvet Lounge* (2026), as Cora - *The Roughneck* (2025), as Amy Bessmer - *Aftermath* (2024), as Samantha 'Doc' Brown - *Jurassic World: Chaos Theory* (2024), series, as Soyona Santos (voice) - *Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes* (2024), as Korina — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/kingdom-of-the-planet-of-the-apes.md) - *Joe Baby* (2024), as Joe Baby - *Avatar: The Last Airbender* (2024), series, as Yangchen - *Webcam* (2024), as kitty - *Baymax!* (2022), series, as Additional Voice Talent (voice) - *Jurassic World Dominion* (2022), as Soyona Santos — Fi1m 42, [page](https://film.one/film/jurassic-world-dominion.md) - *Severance* (2022), series, as Ms. Casey — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/severance.md) - *Raya and the Last Dragon* (2021), as General Atitaya / Spine Warrior (voice) - *Bad Therapy* (2020), as Stern - *Altered Carbon* (2018), series, as Reileen Kawahara - *Animal Kingdom* (2016), series, as Frankie - *Too Late* (2016), as Jill - *Supergirl* (2015), series, as Veronica Sinclair / Roulette - *The Last Ship* (2014), series, as Jesse — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-last-ship.md) - *The 100* (2014), series, as Anya - *Lust for Love* (2014), as Cali · Producer - *Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.* (2013), series, as Jiaying - *King & Maxwell* (2013), series, as Benny - *Last Resort* (2012), series, as Tani Tumrenjack - *Being Human* (2011), series, as Suren — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/being-human.md) - *Shameless* (2011), series, as Angela — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/shameless-2011.md) - *Hawaii Five-0* (2010), series, as Amy Hanamoa — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/tv/hawaii-five-0.md) - *Sunday Punch* (2010), as Jill - *The Glades* (2010), series, as Chef Lana Kim - *NCIS: Los Angeles* (2009), series, as Allison Pritchett / Allysia Takada - *Bled* (2009), as Aaren - *Dollhouse* (2009), series, as Sierra — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/dollhouse.md) - *The Guild* (2007), series, as Dichen Lachman - *Tyrannosaurus Azteca* (2007), as Ayacoatl - *Torchwood* (2006), series, as Agent Lyn Peterfield — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/tv/torchwood.md) - *Safety in Numbers* (2006), as News Reporter - *Aquamarine* (2006), as Beth-Ann - *CSI: Crime Scene Investigation* (2000), series, as Jessica Lowell - *Unholy Night*, Actor ## Gallery - ![Closing Ceremony (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/48328/gallery-74e0c0e81dff.jpg) Closing Ceremony (2009) — vagueonthehow from Tadcaster, York, England, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Closing_Ceremony_%283484339368%29.jpg/1280px-Closing_Ceremony_%283484339368%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Closing Ceremony (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/48328/gallery-1dd3e1261355.jpg) Closing Ceremony (2009) — vagueonthehow from Tadcaster, York, England, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Closing_Ceremony_%283484393000%29.jpg/1280px-Closing_Ceremony_%283484393000%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - 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