Anjali Bhimani

Bhimani was born in Cleveland, Ohio,^[1][2] the daughter of doctors Ela and Bharat Bhimani.^[3] She is of Indian Sindhi descent and grew up in Orange County, California.^[3] She attended Northwestern University.^[2][4]

Bhimani's long time collaboration with Mary Zimmerman began in 1997 when she appeared as an Indian princess in Mirror of the Invisible World, adapted from the 12th century Persian epic Haft Peykar.^[5][6] She played Greek mythological character Myrrha in Zimmerman-directed Metamorphoses's world premiere produced by Lookingglass Theatre Company in 1998 and its Off-Broadway opening at the Second Stage Theatre in 2001.^[7] Drama critic Albert Williams, in his review for the Chicago Reader, called Bhimani a "stunning dancer".^[8] She made her Broadway debut when Metamorphoses opened at Circle in the Square Theatre (2002).^[9][10]

In 2004, Bhimani became an understudy for Ayesha Dharker and Madhur Jaffrey's characters in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Bombay Dreams. During the play's The Broadway Theatre production Dharker left the play and Bhimani took over her role.^[11][12] She appeared as The Sparrow in Czech opera Brundibár (2006).^[13] Quake, a play Bhimani co-produced and co-directed opened at the Open Fist Theatre Company's First Look Festival of New Plays in 2011.^[14] For The Jungle Book she re-teamed with Zimmerman and played the role of mother wolf in its 2013 Goodman Theatre production.^[5][15]

Bhimani has appeared in TV series including All My Children, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Sopranos, Journeyman, Shark, Flight of the Conchords, and Modern Family. She voiced the character Symmetra in the first-person shooter video game Overwatch, and shared the 2016 Behind the Voice Actors Award for Best Vocal Ensemble in a Video Game with her co-voice actors for the game.

In 2021, she guest starred on Exandria Unlimited, a spinoff of the actual play web series Critical Role.^[16] In 2023, she played Queen Amangeaux Epicée du Peche in Dimension 20: The Ravening War.^[17] In March 2025, she released her first Dungeons & Dragons adventure module – titled The Malady of Minarrh – on D&D Beyond via her company Road to Ithaka Press.^[18][19]

In 2023 Bhimani wrote a book, I Am Fun Size, and So Are You! Thoughts from a Tiny Human on Living a Giant Life, based on her YouTube series of the same name.^[20]

In 2024 Bhumani started an annual fundraiser called "The Puppy Roll". The event is a fundraiser for the Petco Love charity in which Dungeons & Dragons players use characters based on their pets. Bhumani has been playing D&D since she was eight years old and started in the event after the passing of her dog, Charlie.^[21]