Biography
Ayesha Dharker (born March 16, 1978 in Mumbai, India) is an Indian actress. She is known for her performance in the Tamil Indian film, The Terrorist (1999), for which she was awarded Best Artistic Contribution by an Actress at the Cairo International Film Festival and nominated for a Chlotrudis Award and National Film Award for Best Actress. She has also appeared in Hollywood films such as Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and The Mistress of Spices, television series such as Arabian Ni...
Known For
Complete Filmography
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
2026
as Gertrude
Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy. Trapped between dut...
National Theatre Live: The Father and the Assassin
2024
as Aai
Mahatma Gandhi: lawyer, champion of non-violence, beloved leader. Nathuram Godse: journalist, nationalist – and the man who murdered Gandhi. This gr...
National Theatre Live: The Book of Dust — La Belle Sauvage
2022
as Marisa Coulter
Two young people and their dæmons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt. In their care is a tiny child call...
The Father
2020
as Dr. Sarai
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved o...
Richard II
2019
as Aumerle
Beset by problems at home and abroad, a capricious king is forced to relinquish his ‘hollow crown’. As his supporters abandon him and his power trickl...
The children trapped in Bangladesh's brothel village
2016
as Narrator
Daulatdia is an entire village in Bangladesh dedicated to prostitution. Every day, 1,600 trafficked, enslaved and abandoned women and girls sell thems...
RSC Live: Othello
2015
as Emilia
Othello is the greatest general of his age. A fearsome warrior, loving husband and revered defender of Venice against its enemies. But he is also an ...
Red Alert: The War Within
2010
as Radhaka
While delivering food in a forest area in Andhra Pradesh, impoverished Narasimha is held against his will by a band of Naxalites led by Velu, and forc...
Jubilee
2009
as Rani Mehta
Two members of a right wing political party are on the campaign trail in a housing estate. During the course of a day knocking on doors, it becomes cl...
Mad Sad & Bad
2009
as Roxy
HARDEEP, RASHMI and ATUL are brothers and sisters. Which means they can say anything they like to each other, no matter how honest. Mad, Sad and Bad i...
Outsourced
2007
as Asha
After his entire department is outsourced, an American novelty products salesman heads to India to train his replacement.
Loins of Punjab Presents
2007
as Opama Menon
A ruthless philantrophist. A bhangra rapper. An over-protected prodigy. A reckless actress. A lovelorn businessman. An entrepreneurial yogi. And a Loi...
Colour Me Kubrick
2005
as Dr Stukeley
The true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, despite knowing very littl...
The Mistress of Spices
2005
as Hameeda - Haroun's neighbor
Tilo is an Indian shopkeeper in America with an ability to see the future and a magical connection to powerful spices, which she uses to help her cust...
Anita and Me
2002
as Mrs. Daljeet Kumar
Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who've come to England to give her ...
The House Across The Street
2002
as Mala
Farce written by Shaheen Khan and Sudha Bhuchar about two 39-year-old twins living with their manipulative mother in suburbia.
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002
as Queen Jamillia
Following an assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi investigate a mysterious plot that could...
The Mystic Masseur
2001
as Leela
Circa 1940 in Trinidad, still a British Colony, lives Ganesh Ramseyor, of East Indian origin, along with his wife, Leela. He longs to reach out to peo...
Split Wide Open
1999
A search for a lost street girl in midst of exposés of modern sexual behaviour in Bombay and a water mafia in the city, this is a real 'split wide ope...
The Terrorist
1998
as Malli
A young female terrorist goes on a suicide assassination mission, but her resolve to complete it is put to the test.
Saaz
1997
as Kuhu Vrundavan
Mansi, played by Aruna Irani the elder sister has to take up professional singing after her father's death and to support the family. The film focuses...
City of Joy
1992
as Amrita H. Pal
Max Lowe is a Houston surgeon who has grown weary of the bureaucracy of American medicine. When he loses a patient on the operating table, Max impulsi...
Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice
1989
as Manika Kallatil
In this unusual feature, Manika is a girl born in a Catholic family in a south Indian fishing village is convinced that she has recently had a former ...