Sarita Choudhury

Sarita Choudhury was born on Aug 18, 1966 in UK. Sarita Choudhury's big-screen debut came with Mississippi Masala directed by Mira Nair in 1991. Sarita Choudhury is known for Little Fires Everywhere directed by Lynn Shelton, Kerry Washington stars as Mia Warren and Lexi Underwood as Pearl Warren. Sarita Choudhury has got 1 awards and 2 nominations so far. The most recent award Sarita Choudhury achieved is Gold List. The upcoming new movie Sarita Choudhury plays is After Yang which will be released on Mar 04, 2022.

After her debut film Mississippi Masala (1991) became an art house hit, Sarita Choudhury was determined not to "go Hollywood," focusing her acting energies on independent film instead.Raised in Jamaica, Mexico, and Italy, the half-Indian, half-English Choudhury studied economics at Queens University in Ontario before switching to acting. She casually auditioned for Mississippi Masala (1991) and wound up cast as the lead opposite Denzel Washington in the singular interracial romance between a Southern African American man and a transplanted Indian woman. Despite the film's surprise success, Choudhury stuck to her non-Hollywood roots, putting her exotic looks and talent to versatile use as a Pakistani country-western singer in Wild West (1992), a Chilean maid who is raped in Bille August's adaptation of La maison aux esprits (1993), and a lesbian mother in Fresh Kill (1994).Choudhury worked with Mississippi Masala (1991) director Mira Nair again in La famille Perez (1995) and played the cuckolded queen Tara in Nair's frankly-sensual feminist parable Kama Sutra, une histoire d'amour (1996).By the late 1990s, Choudhury added a touch of Hollywood to her repertoire with supporting roles in the glossy Alfred Hitchcock remake, Meurtre parfait (1998) and the John Cassavetes retread Gloria (1999).