Ashna Rabheru

Rabheru was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire and grew up in the Brighton Hill area. She has a brother.^[1] Rabheru attended Queen Mary's College. She took classes at the Hunt Academy for Young Actors (HAYA)^[2] and the Identity Drama School.^[3] She balanced sitting her AS-Levels with filming Indian Summers.^[4] She went on to graduate from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 2018 with a Bachelor of Arts in Acting.

At the age of 17, Rabheru signed with Identity Agency Group and subsequently landed her debut television role in the Channel 4 drama Indian Summers, which premiered in 2015, as Shamshad Dalal, a role she would play for both series.

After graduating from drama school, Rabheru made her professional stage debut in Trojan Horse at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Leeds Playhouse. This was followed by London theatre roles in Top Girls at the National Theatre, (BLANK) at the Donmar Warehouse,^[5] Santi & Naz at the VAULT Festival, the fourth edition of Living Newspaper at the Royal Court Theatre,^[6] and Outside at the Orange Tree Theatre.^[7] She made guest appearances in the Channel 4 sitcom Year of the Rabbit and the Netflix comedy-drama Sex Education.

Rabheru had a main role as Jaya Mahajan in the teen horror series Red Rose, which premiered on BBC Three in 2022 and Netflix in 2023.^[8][9] Rabheru also starred in The Animal Kingdom at the Hampstead Theatre^[10] and Ambreen Razia's Favour at the Bush Theatre.^[11][12]