Sujaya Dasgupta

Dasgupta was born 2 February 1988 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 Places in Welwyn Garden City.^[5] She then made her London stage debut in as Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Theatro 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]