Anna Khaja

Khaja attended Castro Valley High School, where she starred in theater productions such as The Diary of Anne Frank and graduated in 1992.^[11] Khaja graduated from UCLA's School of Theater, Film, and Television in 1997.^[12]

Khaja is one of the recipients of the 2020-21 Black List and Google Assistant Storytelling Fellowship.^[13][14]

After graduating, Khaja played roles in TV series such as NUMB3RS, Weeds, FlashForward, and House.^[12][15] She also appeared in the Mark Taper Forum's production of the play Stuff Happens by David Hare.^[16][17] Khaja also originated the role of Nerjas in the U.S. premiere of the play Palace of the End. She received an LA Weekly Theater Award for Solo Performance for her work in the play.^[12][18]

Khaja is married to screenwriter Chris Rossi.^[14]

Film

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Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
					1999	Man Woman Film	Anastasia X
2006	Yasin		Amina	Short film
2006	No. 6		Milena Petrescu	Short film
2007	King of California	Officer Contreras		[12]
2008	Yes Man	Faranoush		[15]
2009	Reunion	Anna		[12]
2009	Post Grad	Juanita		[12]
2010	Order of Chaos	Meter Maid
2011	Admissions	Daphna	Short film	[19]
2012	California Solo	Anna
2014	The Pink Sorrys	Bandit Queen	Short film
2014	Pyromance	Rose	Short film	[20]
2014	Faith	Ouriel	Short film
2015	How I Do Math	Anna	Short film
2015	Meadowland	Fatimah		[15]
2015	The Party Is Over	Rania
2015	He Said	Dr. Miller	Short film
2016	$hitty Job$	Boss	Short film
2016	The Caretaker	Dr. Patel
2016	Holy	Minister	Music video for Danielle LoPresti	[21]
2017	Oscar	Marijuana	Short film
2017	Surefire	Luha	Music video for John Legend	[14]
2017	Khol	Ranjan	Short film	[22]
2018	The Bride		Short film
2019	Heroines		Short film	[23]
2020	Rumble Strip	Carmen		[24]
2020	Definition Please	Jaya		[25]

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Television

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Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
					2002	For the People	Lupe
2005	Strong Medicine		ER Receptionist
2006	NUMB3RS		Saida Kafaji		[12]
2006	Sleeper Cell	N.O.C. Agent		[12]
2007	Weeds	Female Agent		[12]
2008	Dirt	Nurse		[12]
2009	FlashForward	Older Woman
2009	Private Practice	Cooper's Lawyer		[15]
2009	House	Dr. D'Razio		[12]
2009	This Might Hurt		Television movie
2010	The Real Girl's Guide to Everything Else	Aliyah
2010	The Closer	Mrs. Mota		[12]
2012	Bent	Dr. Patel		[26]
2012	True Blood	Zaafira	Recurring role, 6 episodes	[15]
2013	Criminal Minds	Francie Kendall		[1]
2013	The Newsroom	Shanon Hammid		[27]
2013	NCIS: Los Angeles	Talita Pambakian		[1]
2014	The Mentalist	Ellen		[28]
2015	The Fosters	Joan		[29]
2015	Bones	Principal Anne Franklin		[1]
2015–2016	Stitchers	Getti Ahluwalia	Recurring role, 5 episodes	[30]
2015–2018	Silicon Valley	Rachel	Recurring role, 9 episodes	[1]
2015–2018	Quantico	Sita Parrish	Recurring role, 6 episodes	[5]
2016	Conviction	Kadisha Abdullah
2016	Elementary	Nazria Durrani		[1]
2016	Powerhouse	Maxine Mazari
2016–2020	The Good Place	Manisha Al-Jamil	Recurring role, 5 episodes	[1]
2017	The Good Fight	Zeinah Abdoulafia
2017	The Training Day	Kathy Meyers
2017	Shooter	Gabina	Recurring role, 2 episodes
2017–2019	Madam Secretary	Amina Salah	Recurring role, 3 episodes	[31]
2018	S.W.A.T.	Agent Abby DuBois
2018	Shameless	Doctor Padma Singh		[1]
2018–2019	For the People	Vera Simmons	Recurring role, 4 episodes
2018–2019	Lethal Weapon	Senator Donna Malick	Recurring role, 2 episodes	[32]
2019	Last Seen	Kat	Web series
2019	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	Theresa Moore		[33]
2019	NCIS	Eliza Hutchins		[1]
2019	The Boys	Lydia Parker		[1][2]
2020	FBI: Most Wanted	Yara Mahmoud
2020	FBI	Yara Mahmoud
2020	Tommy	Rima Fayed		[34]
2020	The Baker and the Beauty	Betsi
2021	The Resident	Himaya Pravesh		[35]
2021	The Walking Dead: World Beyond	Indira	Recurring Role, 7 Episodes	[6][3]
2021	The Sex Lives of College Girls	Professor Levin		[2]
2022	The Blacklist	Helen Maghi	Episode: "Helen Maghi (No. 172)"
2022	The Lincoln Lawyer	Dr. Miriam Arslanian		[2]
2022	The Young and the Restless	Dr. Malone		[36]

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