Anjli Mohindra

Anjli Mohindra (born 20 February 1990) is a British stage and screen actress from West Bridgford, Nottingham, best known for her television role in The Sarah Jane Adventures as Rani Chandra, as Nadia in the BBC One series Bodyguard, and as Josie Chancellor in the ITV series Dark Heart. In 2018 she played Tara Lohia opposite Simon Callow in the original ghost story The Dead Room written by Mark Gatiss.[2]

Anjli Mohindra
Born	Anjli Mohindra (1990-02-20) 20 February 1990 Edgware, London, United Kingdom[1]
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2005–Present
Partner(s)	Sacha Dhawan

Early life

Mohindra was born to parents Suranjan and Atul Mohindra, in Edgware, London.[1] Her family is Hindu-Sood originating from Punjab, India and she speaks Punjabi and Hindi in addition to English.[3][4] She attended Jesse Gray Primary School and West Bridgford School. She later joined Nottingham Central Junior Television Workshop.[5] She trained in acting at the Carlton Workshops.[6]

In a 2018 interview about her personal style, Mohindra said that she had been a tomboy whilst growing up, sometimes wearing her adoptive brother's hand-me-down clothes.[7]

Career

Mohindra played the role of Rani Chandra in The Sarah Jane Adventures on CBBC, where her character is a few years younger than her. Mohindra played a small part in an episode of teen TV series The Inbetweeners,[8] and appears briefly as Sophie Martin in episode twelve of Law & Order: UK.[9] She also appears on Beaver Falls as Saima. She guest starred in an episode of Legends of Tomorrow as Punk Charlie. She initially declined the role of Nadia in Bodyguard until learning there would be more depth to her character than she assumed.[10]

ITV drama Wild Bill features Mohindra as a regular lead, opposite Rob Lowe.[11][12]

She appeared as Queen Skithra in the 12th series of Doctor Who, broadcast in 2020.[13]

In May 2020, Mohindra wrote "People Under the Moon", a short film set during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown starring Gwilym Lee as a medic who joins a dating app on the eve of lockdown. [14]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Network	Notes
2006	Doctors[15]	Gemma Fox	BBC One	Series 7, Episode 125: "Goodbye Mrs Chips"
	Coronation Street[16]	Shareen	ITV1	Series 1, Episode 6225
2008	The Sarah Jane Adventures[17]	Rani Chandra	CBBC	Appeared in every episode of Series 2 except "The Last Sontaran".
	Blue Peter[18]	Herself	BBC One	Filmed at BBC Television Centre
	TMi[19]	Herself	BBC Two	Filmed at BBC Television Centre
	The Inbetweeners[8]	Charlotte's Friend	E4	Series 1 Episode 4: "Will Gets a Girlfriend"
2009	The Sarah Jane Adventures [20]	Rani Chandra	BBC One	Comic Relief Special.
	The Sarah Jane Adventures[21]	Rani Chandra	BBC One	Appeared in every episode of Series 3.
	Law and Order UK [9]	Sophie Martin	ITV1	Series 2, Episode 5: "Love and Loss"
2010	Holby City [22]	Mindy Kapoor	BBC One	Series 12, Episode 23 "The Butterfly Effect: Part Two"
	Sam & Mark's TMi Friday[23]	Herself	CBBC	Filmed at BBC Television Centre.
	The Sarah Jane Adventures[21]	Rani Chandra	CBBC	Appeared in every episode of Series 4.
	Sarah Jane's Alien Files[24]	Rani Chandra	CBBC	Appeared in Episode 2.
2011	My Sarah Jane: A Tribute to Elisabeth Sladen [25]	Herself	CBBC	Uncredited
	Beaver Falls [26][27]	Saima	E4	Series 1, Episodes 1 & 4
	The Sarah Jane Adventures[28]	Rani Chandra	CBBC	Appeared in every episode of Series 5.
2012	Casualty [29]	Meera Hussein	BBC One	Series 26, Episode 36: "Teenage Dreams"
	The Black Scholes Conspiracy	Dee	—	TV movie
2013	Coming Up	Roxy	Channel 4	Series 11, Episode 4: "Doughnuts"
2014	My Jihad	Fahmida	BBC Three	Drama short
	The Missing	Amara Suri	BBC One (UK) and Starz (US)	Appeared in Episodes 1, 7 & 8
2015	Cucumber	Veronica Chandra	Channel 4	Appeared in Episodes 1, 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8
	My Jihad	Fahmida	BBC Three	Drama shorts - Series Continual
	Cuffs	Nasreen Iqbal	BBC One	Episode 8
2016	Paranoid	Megan Waters	ITV (UK) and Netflix (International)	Appears in Episodes 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8
2017	Revolting	Zaynab	BBC Two	Appears in Episode 1, during a parody called "The Real Housewives of ISIS."
	The Boy With The Topknot	Bindi	BBC Two	TV film
	Bancroft	Zaheera Kamara	ITV	Appears in every episode of Series 1
2018	Midsomer Murders	Faiza Jindal	ITV	Appears in Series 20, Episode 1 "The Ghost of Causton Abbey"
	Bodyguard	Nadia Ali	BBC One	4 episodes
	Dark Heart	DC Josie Chancellor	ITV	Appears in Episodes 2–6. Regular Role.
	Process	Anaya		Short Film
	Legends of Tomorrow	Charlie	The CW	One Episode: "Dancing Queen"
	The Dead Room	Tara Lohia	BBC Four
2019	Wild Bill	DCC Lydia Price	ITV	Main Role
2020	Doctor Who	Queen Skithra	BBC One	Series 12, Episode: Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror

References

1. "Anjli Mohindra".
2. The week in TV: The ABC Murders; Watership Down; You; The Dead Room; Mrs Brown’s Boys Euan Ferguson, The Guardian, 30 December 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2019
3. Harvey, Chris (24 September 2018). "Bodyguard star Anjli Mohindra: 'Nadia isn't an Islamophobic stereotype – playing her was empowering'". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
4. Mohindra, Anjli (23 September 2018). "What starring in Bodyguard taught me about self-acceptance". Stylist. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
5. "James Pulford went to see the Central Drama Workshop perform Scary Play by Judith Johnson". Retrieved 11 December 2009.
6. Anjli Mohindra Interview thescotsman.com 22 June 2019. Retrieved 26 June 2019
7. In The Closet: Bodyguard Actress Anjli Mohindra Takes Centre Stage in flowing gowns Laura Mulley, express.co.uk, 20 September 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2019
8. "The Inbetweeners (2008)". Retrieved 12 December 2009.
9. "Law and Order UK (2009)". Retrieved 12 December 2009.
10. Bond, Kimberley (28 September 2018). "Why I turned down the role of Nadia in Bodyguard". Radio Times. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
11. Nottingham's Bodyguard and Dark Heart actress Anjli Mohindra to star alongside Rob Lowe in new ITV drama Wild Bill Rachel Gorman, nottinghampost.com, 8 November 2018. Retrieved 29 June 2019
12. Wild Bill IMDB, Retrieved 26 June 2019
13. Doctor Who Series 12: new director, actor, character discovered Andrea Laford, cultbox.com, 10 June 2019. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
14. "Citation Needed", Retcon Game, University Press of Mississippi, 3 April 2017, ISBN 978-1-4968-1132-5, retrieved 7 July 2020
15. "Doctors Goodbye Mrs Chips (2006)". Retrieved 12 December 2009.
16. "Coronation Street (2006)". Retrieved 12 December 2009.
17. "The Sarah Jane Adventures series two". Retrieved 11 December 2009.
18. "Blue Peter Episode dated 7 October 2008". Retrieved 12 December 2009.
19. "TMI Episode dated 25 October 2008". Retrieved 12 December 2009.
20. "Special Sarah Jane Adventure". Archived from the original on 6 August 2009. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
21. "Sarah Jane Smith is back". Archived from the original on 18 October 2009. Retrieved 11 December 2009.
22. "Holby City". Retrieved 10 January 2010.
23. "TMI Episode dated 8 October 2010". Retrieved 30 December 2010.
24. "The Sarah Jane Adventures". Archived from the original on 29 October 2010. Retrieved 18 November 2010.
25. "My Sarah Jane: A Tribute to Elisabeth Sladen(2011)". Retrieved 28 June 2011.
26. "Beaver Falls (TV series 2011– )Episode #1.1 (#1.1)". Retrieved 8 October 2011.
27. "Beaver Falls (TV series 2011– )Episode #1.4 (#1.4)". Retrieved 8 October 2011.
28. "Final series of The Sarah Jane Adventures starts on CBBC". Retrieved 8 October 2011.
29. "Casualty(2012)". Retrieved 19 May 2012.

External links

• Anjli Mohindra on IMDb