Supriya Ganesh

Ganesh was born in the United States to Tamil parents from India. At the age of three she moved with her family to New Delhi.^[3][4] She attended Pathways School Noida, where she was the valedictorian of her graduating class in 2015.^[5][6] She later moved back to the United States to attend Columbia University, from which she graduated with a degree in neuroscience and a minor in gender studies, with the intent of attending medical school.^[2][7] While at Columbia she began auditioning for acting roles, pursuing both paths simultaneously. Her parents, supportive but cautious, encouraged her to have a backup plan, leading her to enroll in pre-med, taking all the required courses up to organic chemistry, before choosing to prioritize acting.^[8]

Ganesh began auditioning for acting roles while a student at Columbia University.^[3][9] She made her screen debut on the CBS series Blue Bloods in 2018. Over the following years she accumulated a series of episodic television roles, appearing in The Enemy Within, The Village (both 2019), New Amsterdam (2021), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Everything's Trash (both 2022), Chicago Med, Billions (both 2023), and a recurring role as Nova in Grown-ish (2023–2024). She received her Screen Actors Guild (SAG) card in 2022.^[2][10]

She continued working as an MCAT tutor throughout this period, maintaining the medical school option as a genuine fallback.^[4][11] She was cast as Dr. Samira Mohan, a third-year medical resident, in The Pitt, a Max medical drama created by R. Scott Gemmill and executive produced by John Wells. Set over a single 15-hour shift at a Pittsburgh emergency room led by Dr. Michael Robinavitch (Noah Wyle), the series premiered on 9 January 2025. Ganesh appeared in all 16 episodes of the first season.^[2] She described Dr. Mohan as "almost like a version of myself had I done that."^[8] She also drew on personal experience to develop the character's cultural identity by choosing to have Samira speak Tamil to her mother on screen, a detail she proposed to the show's creators.^[12] She starred as Vaidehi in the world premiere of Deepak Kumar's House of India at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego in May 2025.^[13]

In April 2026, it was announced that Ganesh would be departing The Pitt after two seasons.^[14][15]

Ganesh came out as queer in May 2025. She uses she/they pronouns.^[3]

Film

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Year	Title	Role	Ref.
2022	Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game	Pamela	[16]
	Spoiler Alert	Makeup artist

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Television

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Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2018	Blue Bloods	Therapist	Episode: "Thicker Than Water"	[17]
2019	The Enemy Within	Young Mother	Episode: "Black Bear"
	The Village	Hipster Girl	Episode: "Heart on Fire"
2021	New Amsterdam	Rahel Phillipose	Episode: "In a Strange Land"	[18]
2022	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Kayla Stuart	Episode: "Eighteen Wheels a Predator"	[19]
	Everything's Trash	Angela	Episode: "Election Night Is Trash"	[16]
2023	Chicago Med	Katie Foreman	Episode: "It's an Ill Wind That Blows Nobody Good"	[20]
	Billions	Alexis	Episode: "Game Theory Optimal"
2023–2024	Grown-ish	Nova	2 episodes	[21]
2025–2026	The Pitt	Dr. Samira Mohan	Main role; 30 episodes (seasons 1-2)	[22]

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Theater

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Year	Title	Role	Venue	Notes	Ref.
2025	House of India	Vaidehi	Old Globe Theatre	San Diego	[23]

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