Aysha Kala

Aysha Kala

Aysha Kala’s relationship with BAFTA started in 2015 when she was named as a BAFTA Breakthrough, earning her place shortly after starring in Indian Summers (Channel 4), playing Sooni across two seasons of the hit drama, although she made her small screen debut in Paul Abbott’s Shameless (Channel 4) in 2011. Other previous roles included ITV sitcom Vicious, Amit Gupta’s film Jadoo and Convenience (all in 2013).

Aysha has been busy over the past few years, appearing in Call the Midwife (BBC) and Aziz Ansari’s Master of None (Netflix) in 2021. The following year saw her star in new Rowan Atkinson comedy Man vs. Bee (Netflix) and Peter Kosminsky’s thriller The Undeclared War (Channel 4). Most recently, Aysha has been in The Doll Factory (Paramount+), based on Elizabeth Macneal’s award-winning novel, and was a recurring character in Brit thriller Criminal Record (Apple TV+), alongside Peter Capaldi and Cush Jumbo. She is currently filming a new six-part drama for the BBC called Virdee, alongside fellow Elevate actor Manjinder Virk.

A graduate of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Aysha’s stage work includes The Djinns of Eidgah (Royal Court); Khadija is 18 (Finborough Theatre), for which she was nominated for an Offie; and Much Ado About Nothing (RSC), which won her an Ian Charleson Award. She made her directorial debut with Dismissed at London’s Bunker Theatre in 2019. Since 2020, for the National Theatre, she’s starred in The Welkin, The Motive and the Cue (directed by Sam Mendes) and The Father and the Assassin (directed by the National’s new artistic director Indhu Rubasingham).

Aysha is represented by Kate Staddon, Abigail Millar and Isabelle Sweetland at Curtis Brown.

Talent Agent: UK
Curtis Brown
curtisbrown.co.uk
+44 20 7393 4400
Kate Staddon - [email protected] 

Talent Agent: US
Atlas Artists
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+1 310 786 8900