Ayesha Dharker

Ayesha Dharker

1978-03-16 Bombay, India 23 Credits

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...

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National Theatre Live: Hamlet

National Theatre Live: Hamlet

2026

as Gertrude

Acting

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

National Theatre Live: The Father and the Assassin

2024

as Aai

Acting

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

National Theatre Live: The Book of Dust — La Belle Sauvage

2022

as Marisa Coulter

10.0
Acting

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

The Father

2020

as Dr. Sarai

8.1
Acting

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

Richard II

2019

as Aumerle

Acting

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

6.0
Acting

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

RSC Live: Othello

2015

as Emilia

10.0
Acting

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

Red Alert: The War Within

2010

as Radhaka

4.4
Acting

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

Jubilee

2009

as Rani Mehta

Acting

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

Mad Sad & Bad

2009

as Roxy

4.9
Acting

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

Outsourced

2007

as Asha

6.4
Acting

After his entire department is outsourced, an American novelty products salesman heads to India to train his replacement.

Loins of Punjab Presents

Loins of Punjab Presents

2007

as Opama Menon

5.5
Acting

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

Colour Me Kubrick

2005

as Dr Stukeley

5.7
Acting

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

The Mistress of Spices

2005

as Hameeda - Haroun's neighbor

6.2
Acting

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

Anita and Me

2002

as Mrs. Daljeet Kumar

5.9
Acting

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

The House Across The Street

2002

as Mala

Acting

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

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

2002

as Queen Jamillia

6.6
Acting

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

The Mystic Masseur

2001

as Leela

5.1
Acting

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

Split Wide Open

1999

5.6
Acting

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

The Terrorist

1998

as Malli

6.8
Acting

A young female terrorist goes on a suicide assassination mission, but her resolve to complete it is put to the test.

Saaz

Saaz

1997

as Kuhu Vrundavan

1.0
Acting

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

City of Joy

1992

as Amrita H. Pal

6.6
Acting

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

Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice

1989

as Manika Kallatil

6.5
Acting

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 ...