Tamla Kari

Kari was born and raised in Coventry, West Midlands.^[2] She attended public school and started taking dance lessons when she was four years old.^[1] Around five years old, she performed her first show, tap dancing to "The Sun Has Got His Hat On".^[3] She was inspired to act through her creative and musical father and by her mother who had been an actress.^[3]

During the second term of her final year at the Drama Centre London, Kari won the role of Lucy in The Inbetweeners Movie.^[4] Kari would later graduate from Drama Centre London in 2011 as part of Group 47. She has since had various roles in a number of plays. She also appeared in the fourth series of the BBC Three supernatural drama series Being Human and the second series of Silk. She formerly appeared in the BBC Three sitcom Cuckoo,^[5] which premiered on 25 September 2012, as well as in The Musketeers, in which she portrayed Constance Bonacieux.^[6] In 2013, she played Danielle Fisher in the ITV comedy The Job Lot. In 2014, she reprised the role of Lucy in The Inbetweeners 2. In 2020, Kari began appearing in The First Team as Olivia, a comedy series created by the same team as The Inbetweeners. In 2021, Kari narrated for the 7th series of 999: On the frontline.