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name: "Tina Desai"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tina-desai"
fi1m_id: "tina-desai"
imdb_id: "nm3867591"
tmdb_id: 1447782
wikidata_id: "Q2514244"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "24 February 1987"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T22:14:36.796530+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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# Tina Desai

## Identity

Tina Desai

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tina-desai
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tina-desai
- **IMDb ID:** nm3867591
- **TMDB ID:** 1447782
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2514244
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Desai, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2514244, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3867591/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1447782

Actor. Born 24 February 1987 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 24 February 1987, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- **Also known as:** Tina Desae, Tena Desae
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Desai, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2514244, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3867591/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1447782

## Biography

Tina Desai is an Indian actress and former model. She made her acting debut in the 2011 Hindi thriller *Yeh Faasley* and appeared in *Sahi Dhandhe Galat Bande* (2011) and *Table No. 21* (2013).

She gained international recognition for her role as Sunaina in *The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel* (2012) and its sequel *The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel* (2015). Desai is also known for playing Kala Dandekar in the Netflix series *Sense8* (2015–2018). Born in Bangalore in 1987, she trained in business management before entering modelling and acting.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel* (2012), Fi1m 71, as Sunaina — [page](https://film.one/film/the-best-exotic-marigold-hotel.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

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

- *Bhai Tera Star Hai* (2026), Actor
- *Bloody Brothers* (2022), series, as Sophie
- *Bob Biswas* (2021), as Inspector Indira Verma
- *Mumbai Diaries* (2021), series, as Ananya Ghosh
- *Thomas and Friends: The Super Engine* (2021), as Ashima (voice)
- *Thomas and Friends: The Royal Engine* (2020), as Ashima (voice)
- *Thomas & Friends: Steam Team to the Rescue* (2020), as Ashima / Fashion Designer (voice)
- *Thomas & Friends: A Colourful World* (2019), as Ashima (voice)
- *Dassehra* (2018), as Aditi Singh
- *Thomas & Friends: Here Comes the Steam Team!* (2018), as Ashima (voice)
- *Good Luck* (2018), as Jenny Saxena
- *Happy F*cking New Year.* (2016), as Kala Dandekar
- *Thomas & Friends: The Great Race* (2016), as Ashima (voice)
- *Sense8: Creating the World* (2015), as Kala Dandekar
- *Sense8* (2015), series, as Kala Dandekar
- *The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel* (2015), as Sunaina
- *Sharafat Gayi Tel Lene* (2015), Actor
- *Table No. 21* (2013), as Siya Agasthi
- *Cocktail* (2012), as Waitress (Special Appearance)
- *The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel* (2012), as Sunaina — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/the-best-exotic-marigold-hotel.md)
- *Sahi Dhandhe Galat Bande* (2011), as Neha Sharma
- *Family Business*, series, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Tina Desai](https://film.one/media/person/4163427/gallery-aeb2d8d7c7ad.jpg) Tina Desai — Halseyfan19, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Tina_Desai_in_2012_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Tina Desai](https://film.one/media/person/4163427/gallery-51adb5f7f318.jpg) Tina Desai — Image via TMDB

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