Anjana Vasan: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|SingaporeanTamil actress and singer-songwriter (born 1987)|bot=PearBOT 5}}

| birth_place = [[ChennaiMadras]], [[Tamil Nadu]], India

'''Anjana Vasan''' (born 31 January 1987)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://graziadaily.co.uk/celebrity/news/who-is-anjana-vasan-age-where-from-black-mirror/|title=Black Mirror's Anjana Vasan: 'I Would Love To Explore Demon 79 Again – But In A Different Universe'|work=[[Grazia]]|last1=Roberts|first1=Charlotte|last2=Harry|first2=Aaliyah|date=19 June 2023|accessdate=24 July 2023}}</ref><!-- Possibly [[WP:CITOGENESIS]] - are there other sources to verify this? --> is a [[Singaporean]] actress and singer.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://thebritishblacklist.co.uk/tbb10-with-anjana-vasan-starring-in-young-vic-production-of-life-of-galileo/|title=#TBB10 with Anjana Vasan starring in Young Vic production of Life of Galileo|journal=The British Blacklist|first=Akua|last=Gyamfi|date=17 May 2017|accessdate=20 June 2021}}</ref> Born into a Tamil family in India, she is based in the [[United Kingdom]]. For her stage work, Vasan has won a [[Laurence Olivier Award]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/reviews/summer-and-smoke-duke-of-yorks-patsy-ferran_48044.html | title=Review: Summer and Smoke (Duke of York's Theatre) | publisher=WhatsOnStage | first=Alun | last=Hood | date=21 November 2018 | accessdate=5 December 2022}}</ref> SheOn alsotelevision, played theshe leadstars in the [[Channel 4]] sitcom ''[[We Are Lady Parts]]'' (2021–2024), for which she was nominated for a [[British Academy Television Award]]. Her films include ''[[Wicked Little Letters]]'' (2023).

Vasan was born in [[ChennaiMadras]] (now known as Chennai), India to a [[Tamils|Tamil Hindu]] family and moved to [[Singapore]] when she was four years old.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://magazine.outlookindia.com/story/witching-hour/291280|title=Witching Hour|journal=Outlook|first=Vibhuti|last=Patel|date=14 July 2014|accessdate=20 June 2021}}{{subscription required}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://browngirlmagazine.com/2020/11/the-cast-of-mogul-mowgli-on-representation-and-breaking-barriers/|title=The Cast of 'Mogul Mowgli' on Representation and Breaking Barriers|journal=Brown Girl Magazine|date=24 November 2020|accessdate=20 June 2021|archive-date=24 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624223536/https://browngirlmagazine.com/2020/11/the-cast-of-mogul-mowgli-on-representation-and-breaking-barriers/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mogulmowgli.co.uk/anjana-vasan|title="Chennai. Singapore. London. I'm made up of three places and cultures. I often feel like I'm split in three."|website=Mogul Mowgli|accessdate=20 June 2021|archive-date=24 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624202140/https://www.mogulmowgli.co.uk/anjana-vasan|url-status=dead}}</ref> She took theatre studies at the [[National University of Singapore]] before relocating to the United Kingdom, where she graduated in 2012 with a [[Master of Arts]] in Acting from the [[Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blog.rwcmd.ac.uk/2014/07/08/ajana-on-singapore-shakespeare-and-sir-ken/|title=Anjana on Singapore, Shakespeare and Sir Ken|website=RWCMD|date=8 July 2014|accessdate=20 June 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://inews.co.uk/culture/arts/anjana-vasan-dolls-house-interview-lyric-hammersmith-337086|title=Anjana Vasan on A Doll's House: 'I didn't know if someone who was foreign and brown would have a career here'|journal=INews|first=Fiona|last=Mountford|date=10 September 2019|accessdate=20 June 2021}}</ref>

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