Sujaya Dasgupta
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| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2015–present |
Sujaya Dasgupta is a British actress. She is known for her roles in the Netflix series Shadow and Bone (2021–2023) and the Apple TV+ series Shantaram (2022).
Dasgupta was born in India;[1] for her father's work, she moved to England at the age of 3,[2] where she grew up in Hertfordshire. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Leicester in 2009.[3] She then trained in acting, going on to graduate from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2015.[4]
Dasgupta appeared in the 2011 Barn Theatre productions of Lost and Private Fears in Public PlacesinWelwyn Garden City.[5] She then made her London stage debut in as HippolytainA Midsummer Night's DreamatTheatro Technis in 2012.[6]
Upon graduating from drama school, Dasgupta made her television debut as Priya Sutaria in a 2015 episode of the BBC medical drama Doctors. The following year, she had a recurring role as Veena Patel in the Freeform mystery series Guilt. She then went on the UK tour of Death of a Salesman in 2017,[7][8] and had further television roles as Esme in the BBC One drama Press and Jamila Vani in four episodes of the soap opera Casualty in 2018.[9]
In 2019, Dasgupta went on the UK tour of the stage adaptation of A Thousand Splendid Suns.[10][11] That same year, she was cast as Zoya Nazyalensky in the Netflix fantasy series Shadow and Bone based on the Grishaverse novels by Leigh Bardugo, which premiered in 2021.[12] She also made guest appearances in Michaela Coel's miniseries I May Destroy You (2020) and the third series of the sitcom Ghosts (2021).
In 2022, Dasgupta had a main role as Kavita in the Apple TV+ adaptation of Shantaram.[13] She also starred in the play Silence, which ran at London's Donmar Warehouse and Tara Theatre.[14][15]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2014 | Red Wolf | The Woman In Red / Narrator | Short film |
| 2015 | Doctors | Priya Sutaria | Episode: "Mother to Be" |
| 2016 | Guilt | Veena Patel | Recurring role; 7 episodes |
| 2017 | The Good Karma Hospital | Mrs. Menon | 1 episode |
| 2018 | Press | Esme | 4 episodes |
| Casualty | Jamila Vani | 4 episodes | |
| 2020 | I May Destroy You | Mandeep | Episode: “The Alliance” |
| 2021–present | Shadow and Bone | Zoya Nazyalensky | Recurring role |
| 2021 | Ghosts | Zara | Episode: "The Bone Plot" |
| 2022 | Shantaram | Kavita | Main role |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Private Fears in Public Places | Nicola | Barn Theatre, Welwyn Garden City[5] |
| Lost | Elspet Grahame / Hetty / Dorothy Milne | ||
| 2012 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Hippolyta | Theatro Technis, London[6] |
| 2017 | Death of a Salesman | Jenny / Miss Forsythe | UK tour |
| 2019 | A Thousand Splendid Suns | Laila | UK tour |
| 2022 | Silence | Various | Donmar Warehouse, London |
