Amrita Acharia

Amrita Acharia (Nepali: अमृता आचार्य, also spelled Acharya) is a British actress of Nepalese–Ukrainian origins.[2] She is best known for her roles as Irri in the HBO series Game of Thrones and as Dr. Ruby Walker in the ITV series The Good Karma Hospital.

Amrita Acharia
अमृता आचार्य
Amrita Acharia at the Triforce SFF Awards in 2014
Born (1987-07-31) 31 July 1987
Kathmandu, Nepal
NationalityBritish
Other namesAmrita Acharya Dunne
OccupationActress
Notable work
Game of Thrones
Height1.57 m (5 ft 2 in)[1]

Early life

Acharia was born in Kathmandu, Nepal. Her father is a Nepalese gynaecologist who met her mother, a Ukrainian architect, while he was attending medical school in Kyiv. Acharia grew up in Kathmandu, Ukraine, England and Norway. 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 Norway.[3]

At the age of 19, having finished high school in Norway, Acharia moved to England seeking a career in acting.[4][5] She trained at ALRA.[1]

Career

Acharia played the role of Irri, a Dothraki servant of Daenerys Targaryen in the first two seasons of Game of Thrones. Her character died during the second season.[6] 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.[3]

In 2011, Acharia starred in the one-off BBC Christmas show, Lapland.[7] She also made an appearance as a school girl in the biographical film The Devil's Double.

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 Academy Awards submission.[8]

From 2017 to present she has starred as Dr Ruby Walker in the ITV series The Good Karma Hospital. Acharia plays an NHS 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 Kerala (although the show was actually filmed in Sri Lanka rather than India).[3] She was longlisted for the 2019 National Television Awards in the Best Drama Performance category for the role.[9]

She is the lead in the British psychological thriller Welcome to Curiosity which is supposedly the world's first film to be entirely crowdfunded. The producers raised £200,000 through crowdfunding. It relates four interconnected stories based around a serial killer's escape from prison.[10] The film received poor reviews.[11]

Personal life

Acharia completed the London Marathon in 2016, with a time of 03:46:07.[12]

She is an ambassador for the charity ChoraChori, which works to rescue displaced and trafficked Nepalese children from India.[13] She speaks Ukrainian, Russian, English, and Norwegian.[6][14] She does not speak Nepali, but stated she is planning to learn it.[15][3]

Filmography
Television roles
Year Title Role Notes
2010 Casualty Neela Sarin Episode: "A Lesser Good"[16]
2011 Doctors Saskia Tremlett Episode: "Candidate"
2011 Lapland Bride TV Movie
2011-2012 Game of Thrones Irri Recurring (season 1-2)
2015 Pen & Paper & Laser Guns Abby (Uncredited) 1 episode. Webseries.[17]
2016 Acquitted Amina Sahir Recurring
2017 Red Dwarf Waitress Greta Episode: "Timewave"
2017-present The Good Karma Hospital Dr. Ruby Walker Main cast
2018 Sibi and Dan Kate TV Pilot
2020 The Sister Holly Fox Series 1
Film roles
Year Title Role Notes
2010 In Company of Wolves Rita Short film
2010 Collectables Short film
2011 The Devil's Double School Girl
2013 I Am Yours Mina
2014 Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead Reidun
2014 Camouflage Amira
2015 Amar Akbar & Tony Richa
2015 Of Her I Dream Sharza Short film
2015 Queen's Mile Ania Short film
2016 Kiss the Devil in the Dark Lilly / Lilly Demon Short film
2016 Arrivals Soyraya
2018 White Chamber[18] Ruth
2018 Genesis[19] Alexa Brooks
2018 Welcome to Curiosity[10] Zoe
2019 Missing Link Ama Lahuma (voice)[20]

Stage
Year Title Role Venue
2010 Elevator She New Diorama Theatre[21]
2014 At The End of Everything Else Icka Unicorn Theatre[22]
2015 The Chronicles of Kalki Kalki Gate Theatre[23]

References
  1. Amrita Acharia cv Conway van Gelder Grant. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  2. "Nepalese actress Amrita Acharya born in Nepal". 18 June 2013. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  3. Gilbert, Gerard (1 February 2017). "Actress Amrita Acharia talks Game of Thrones, Nordic noir and The Good Karma Hospital". The Independent. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  4. Tommy H. Brakstad (24 January 2012). "Her er Norges ukjente filmstjerne" [Here is Norway's unknown film star]. Verdens Gang (in Norwegian). Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  5. Dhungana, Smriti. "Coming back home after 16 years…". My Republica. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  6. Daniel Feinberg (29 April 2012). "Amrita Acharia talks Game of Thrones". Uproxx. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  7. "Lapland – Christmas Special". The British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  8. Wiseman, Andreas (24 September 2013). "I Am Yours gets Norway Oscar nod". Screen International – via ProQuest Music & Performing Arts Collection.
  9. Moran, Michael (16 October 2018). "National Television Awards 2019 nominations revealed in full - as Susanna Reid brands the whole thing sexist". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  10. Ames, Daryl (7 June 2018). "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom out this week". Craven Herald (Skipton, England). Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  11. "Welcome To Curiosity Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Open Publishing. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  12. "Amrita Acharya Dunne 52826". Runpix. 24 April 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  13. "Nepal Children's Charity". Encyclopedia of Things. Open Publishing. 30 April 2005. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  14. "Norske Amrita (23) i ny HBO-satsing" [Norwegian Amrita (23) in a new HBO initiative]. Dagbladet (in Norwegian). 7 September 2010. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  15. Bhattarai, Sewa. "Amrita Acharia comes home". Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  16. Casualty Series 24 Episode 40 Radio Times, retrieved 27 July 2019.
  17. Pen & Paper & Laser Guns - Season 1 Episode 1 by Bruce Monarch. (Acharia is featured at around 18:10.)
  18. "White Chamber". British Film Council. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  19. Genesis 2 - 2018 Official Movie Trailer Obsidian Ross, 16 April 2018. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  20. Kay, Jeremy (28 June 2018). "Annapurna sets 2019 release for Laika's 'Missing Link'". Screen International – via ProQuest Music & Performing Arts Collection.
  21. Haydon, Andrew (11 May 2010). "Elevator". Time Out. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  22. Haydon, Ronnie (10 April 2014). "At The End of Everything Else". The Stage. 16-17 – via ProQuest Music & Performing Arts Collection.CS1 maint: location (link)
  23. Tripney, Natasha (15 January 2015). "The Chronicles of Kalki". The Stage. 16 – via ProQuest Music & Performing Arts Collection.CS1 maint: location (link)
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