Sujaya Dasgupta

Sujaya Dasgupta is a British actress. She is known for her roles in the Netflix series Shadow and Bone (2021–2023) and the Apple TV+ series Shantaram (2022).

Early life
Dasgupta was born in India; for her father's work, she moved to England at the age of 3, where she grew up in Hertfordshire. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Leicester in 2009. She then trained in acting, going on to graduate from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2015.

Career
Dasgupta appeared in the 2011 Barn Theatre productions of Lost and Private Fears in Public Places in Welwyn Garden City. She then made her London stage debut in as Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Theatro Technis in 2012.

Upon graduating from drama school, Dasgupta made her television debut as Priya Sutaria in a 2015 episode of the BBC medical drama Doctors. The following year, she had a recurring role as Veena Patel in the Freeform mystery series Guilt. She then went on the UK tour of Death of a Salesman in 2017, and had further television roles as Esme in the BBC One drama Press and Jamila Vani in four episodes of the soap opera Casualty in 2018.

In 2019, Dasgupta went on the UK tour of the stage adaptation of A Thousand Splendid Suns. That same year, she was cast as Zoya Nazyalensky in the Netflix fantasy series Shadow and Bone based on the Grishaverse novels by Leigh Bardugo, which premiered in 2021. She also made guest appearances in Michaela Coel's miniseries I May Destroy You (2020) and the third series of the sitcom Ghosts (2021).

In 2022, Dasgupta had a main role as Kavita in the Apple TV+ adaptation of Shantaram. She also starred in the play Silence, which ran at London's Donmar Warehouse and Tara Theatre.