Amara Karan

Amara Karan (born Amara Karunakaran, 1 January 1984, Wimbledon, London, England) is a British actress of Sri Lankan Tamil descent, whose parents emigrated from Zambia to the UK two years before her birth. She attended Wimbledon High School before studying Politics, Philosophy and Economics at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, where she began acting in amateur plays. After graduating, she worked as an investment banker at Hawkpoint and CIBC World Markets before pursuing acting, training at The Arts Educational Schools London. She made her film debut in 2007 in Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited and her stage debut the following year in RSC productions of The Merchant of Venice and The…