Amrita Acharia ( ne, अमृता आचार्य, also spelled Acharya) is a Norwegian actress of Nepalese

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origins. She is best known for her roles as Irri in the HBO series ''

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'' and as Dr. Ruby Walker in the ITV series '' The Good Karma Hospital''.

Early life

Acharia was born in

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1987. Her father is a Nepalese

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who met her mother, a

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, while he was attending

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. Acharia grew up in

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and

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. She spent her first seven years in Nepal, before her father's job took him and his family to England and then, when she was 13, to Tromsø, Norway. At the age of 19, having finished high school in Norway, Acharia moved to England seeking a career in acting. She trained at ALRA.Amrita Acharia cv
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Career

Acharia played the role of Irri, a Dothraki servant of

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in the first two seasons of ''

''. Her character died during the second season. In a scene cut from the broadcast programmes, Irri was strangled by her fellow handmaiden Doreah (played by Roxanne McKee). Acharia suffered from bruising on her neck the following day after encouraging McKee to "go for it" during the scene. In 2011, Acharia starred in the one-off BBC Christmas show, '' Lapland''. She also made an appearance as a school girl in the biographical film ''

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''. Acharia played the lead in the Norwegian feature film " I Am Yours", a role which landed her a nomination for Best Actress at the Norwegian Amanda Awards. The film was chosen as Norway's foreign-language

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submission. In 2016 Acharia appeared in the role as State Prosecutor in the Norwegian TV-series Frikjent. (Acquitted) From 2017 to present she has starred as Dr Ruby Walker in the ITV series '' The Good Karma Hospital''. Acharia plays an

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junior doctor who, faced with frustration at work and issues in her personal life, responds to an advert to work at a public hospital in the southern Indian state of

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(although the show was actually filmed in

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rather than India). She was longlisted for the 2019

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in the Best Drama Performance category for the role. She is the lead in the British psychological thriller ''

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'' which is supposedly the world's first film to be entirely

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. The producers raised £200,000 through crowdfunding. It relates four interconnected stories based around a serial killer's escape from prison.

Personal life

Acharia completed the London Marathon in 2016, with a time of 03:46:07. She is an ambassador for the

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Nepalese children from India. She speaks

, Russian,

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, and

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. She does not speak Nepali, but stated she is planning to learn it.

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre credits

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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