Poorna Jagannathan

Poorna Jagannathan

Born: December 22, 1972
in Tunis, Tunisia
Poorna Jagannathan is an American actress and producer. She is best known for her portrayal of Safar Khan in HBO's Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated show, The Night Of, as well as playing the lead in the Bollywood cult comedy film Delhi Belly. She also initiated and produced the play Nirbhaya, written and directed by Yael Farber, which dealt with breaking the silence about sexual violence. Her play won the 2013 'Amnesty International Award' and was called by The Telegraph as the "One of the most powerful pieces of theater you'll ever see". Jagannathan was featured among the top 10 in Femina magazine's "India's 50 most beautiful women" in 2012 and in 2014, she was named among the top 50 most powerful women in India. She was most recently a series regular on Gypsy, a Netflix original series, and part of the ensemble cast for HBO's new anthology series, Room 104, by the Duplass brothers. Her new film, Share, directed by Pippa Bianco and produced by A24, is slated for a 2019 release on HBO. In May 2018, Deadline announced that Jagannathan was joining the cast of the HBO series Big Little Lies, as a new recurring character.

Movies for Poorna Jagannathan...

Wolfs
Title: Wolfs
Released: September 18, 2024
Type: Movie
Two lone-wolf fixers are unknowingly assigned to the same job.
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Turtles All the Way Down
Title: Turtles All the Way Down
Character: Dr. Kira Singh
Released: April 27, 2024
Type: Movie
Aza confronts her potential for love, happiness, friendship, and hope while navigating an endless barrage of invasive, obsessive thoughts.
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The Out-Laws
Title: The Out-Laws
Character: Rehan Zakaryan
Released: July 7, 2023
Type: Movie
A straight-laced bank manager is about to marry the love of his life. When his bank is held up by infamous Ghost Bandits during his wedding week, he believes his future in-laws who just arrived in town, are the infamous Out-Laws.
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I'll Show You Mine
Title: I'll Show You Mine
Character: Priya
Released: April 16, 2022
Type: Movie
An author, who made a career by examining her own trauma sits down to interview her nephew for a new book about his history as a gender-nonconforming model and pansexual poster boy. Each of them reveal much more than expected and confront some of their most deeply hidden secrets.
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House Comes with a Bird
Title: House Comes with a Bird
Character: Langley
Released: March 23, 2022
Type: Movie
It’s quintessentially late afternoon Californian sun. The eponymous house gently hosts a number of clipped social encounters. Each of these denotes dynamics of power in race, gender and class. While it’s the macaw that seems ostensibly and literally caged, Bravo’s drama of manners suggests that every single one of us may not be quite as uncaged as we assume.
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Alia's Birth
Title: Alia's Birth
Released: August 26, 2021
Type: Movie
A rocky relationship between a lesbian couple forces them to spend the night apart.
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Title: The Wilds
Character: Rana Jadmani
Released: December 11, 2020
Type: TV
A group of teen girls from different backgrounds must fight for survival after a plane crash strands them on a deserted island. The castaways both clash and bond as they learn more about each other, the secrets they keep, and the traumas they've all endured. But there’s just one twist… these girls did not end up on this island by accident.
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Title: Never Have I Ever
Character: Dr. Nalini Vishwakumar
Released: April 27, 2020
Type: TV
After a traumatic year, all an Indian-American teen wants is to go from pariah to popular -- but friends, family and feeling won't make it easy on her.
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Title: Defending Jacob
Character: Elizabeth Vogel
Released: April 24, 2020
Type: TV
A family's lives are irreparably disrupted when the 14-year-old son is accused of murdering a fellow classmate.
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Title: Messiah
Character: Sanjana Mirza
Released: January 1, 2020
Type: TV
A wary CIA officer investigates a charismatic man who sparks a spiritual movement and stirs political unrest. Who exactly is he? And what does he want?
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The Dead Center
Title: The Dead Center
Character: Sarah Grey
Released: October 11, 2019
Type: Movie
When a mysterious "John Doe" wakes up in a morgue and wanders into a psychiatric ward, a devoted doctor and curious medical examiner must slowly uncover dark and sinister secrets about the man that reveal a more horrifying truth than they could have ever imagined.
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Title: The Act
Character: Lakshmi Chandra
Released: March 20, 2019
Type: TV
A seasonal anthology series that tells startling, stranger-than-fiction true crime stories with the first season following Gypsy Blanchard, a girl trying to escape the toxic relationship she has with her overprotective mother.
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Share
Title: Share
Character: Kerri
Released: January 25, 2019
Type: Movie
After discovering a disturbing video from a night she doesn’t remember, sixteen-year-old Mandy must try to figure out what happened and how to navigate the escalating fallout.
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Title: Sorry For Your Loss
Character: Matt's Psychiatrist
Released: September 18, 2018
Type: TV
The sudden death of her husband upends and transforms every relationship in Leigh Shaw’s life. It also forces her to realize there was a lot about her husband that she didn’t know.
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An Actor Prepares
Title: An Actor Prepares
Character: Dr. Fisher
Released: August 31, 2018
Type: Movie
After suffering a heart attack, a world-famous and hard-drinking actor is forced to drive across country with his estranged son—who testified against him in his parents' divorce—on one last madcap adventure.
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Mile 22
Title: Mile 22
Character: Dorothy Brady
Released: August 16, 2018
Type: Movie
An elite group of American operatives, aided by a top-secret tactical command team, must transport an asset who holds life-threatening information to an extraction point 22 miles away through the hostile streets of an Asian city.
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Daisy Winters
Title: Daisy Winters
Character: Annabel Kumar
Released: October 6, 2017
Type: Movie
An eleven year-old girl's unconventional yet deeply loving relationship with her mother is harshly broken. Along her journey, including her quest to discover her father, she learns how to embrace every moment with determination and unrelenting self-confidence.
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Title: Room 104
Character: Divya (voice)
Released: July 28, 2017
Type: TV
An anthology series set in a single hotel room, where every guest who comes to stay reveals a unique set of circumstances and quirks.
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Title: Gypsy
Character: Larin Inamdar
Released: June 30, 2017
Type: TV
The journey of Jean Holloway – a therapist who begins to develop dangerous and intimate relationships with the people in her patients' lives.
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The Circle
Title: The Circle
Character: Dr. Jessica Villalobos
Released: April 27, 2017
Type: Movie
A young tech worker takes a job at a powerful Internet corporation, quickly rises up the company's ranks, and soon finds herself in a perilous situation concerning privacy, surveillance and freedom. She comes to learn that her decisions and actions will determine the future of humanity.
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Carrie Pilby
Title: Carrie Pilby
Character: Fliss
Released: March 31, 2017
Type: Movie
Awkward, isolated and disapproving of most of the people around her, a precocious 19-year-old genius is challenged to put her convictions to the test by venturing out on to the NYC dating scene.
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Title: Taken
Character: Judith Chapman
Released: February 27, 2017
Type: TV
The origin story of younger, hungrier, former Green Beret Bryan Mills as he deals with a personal tragedy that shakes his world. As he fights to overcome the incident and exact revenge, Mills is pulled into a career as a deadly CIA operative, a job that awakens his very particular, and very dangerous, set of skills.
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Growing Up Smith
Title: Growing Up Smith
Character: Nalini Bhatnagar
Released: February 3, 2017
Type: Movie
In 1979, an Indian family moves to America with hopes of living the American Dream. While their 10-year-old boy Smith falls head-over-heels for the girl next door, his desire to become a "good old boy" propels him further away from his family's ideals than ever before.
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Title: The Night Of
Character: Safar Khan
Released: July 10, 2016
Type: TV
After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder.
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Title: Better Call Saul
Character: Dr. Maureen Bruckner
Released: February 8, 2015
Type: TV
Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".
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Title: The Blacklist
Character: Nirah Ahmad
Released: September 23, 2013
Type: TV
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this "The Blacklist". Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.
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Thanks for Sharing
Title: Thanks for Sharing
Character: Lili Kazhani
Released: September 19, 2013
Type: Movie
A romantic comedy that brings together three disparate characters who are learning to face a challenging and often confusing world as they struggle together against a common demon—sex addiction.
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Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
Title: Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
Character: Riyana
Released: May 31, 2013
Type: Movie
On a trekking trip, an introverted Naina falls for a charming ex-classmate, whose thirst for adventure drives them apart. Years later, their paths cross again.
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Peace, Love & Misunderstanding
Title: Peace, Love & Misunderstanding
Character: Mira
Released: September 13, 2011
Type: Movie
A conservative lawyer named Diane takes her two teenage children Jake and Zoe to meet their estranged, hippie grandmother in Woodstock after her husband asks for a divorce.
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Delhi Belly
Title: Delhi Belly
Character: Menaka Vashisht
Released: July 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Three unsuspecting, average guys find themselves on the hit list of one of India's most-powerful crime syndicates.
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Title: Rizzoli & Isles
Character: Mrs. Jalbani
Released: July 12, 2010
Type: TV
Perhaps their strikingly different personalities make the relationship between detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles so effective. Jane, the only female cop in Boston's homicide division, is tough, relentless and rarely lets her guard down, while the impeccably dressed Maura displays a sometimes icy temperament — she is, after all, more comfortable among the dead than the living. Together, the best friends have forged a quirky and supportive relationship; they drop the protective shield in each other's company, and combine their expertise to solve Boston's most complex cases.
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Awake
Title: Awake
Character: Dr. Neyer's Nurse
Released: November 28, 2007
Type: Movie
While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation. As various obstacles present themselves, his wife must make life-altering decisions while wrestling with her own personal drama.
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The Weather Man
Title: The Weather Man
Character: NY Pedestrian
Released: October 20, 2005
Type: Movie
A Chicago weather man, separated from his wife and children, debates whether professional and personal success are mutually exclusive.
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Dealbreaker
Title: Dealbreaker
Character: Fran's girlfriend
Released: October 6, 2005
Type: Movie
A short centered on the dating adventures of Fran, a 30-year-old New Yorker.
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Title: Made in Hollywood
Character: Self
Released: September 30, 2005
Type: TV
Made in Hollywood is a talk show hosted by Kylie Erica Mar and Julie L. Harkness airing in syndication since September 30, 2005. The series is currently in its seventh season. The series is filmed in two studios in Los Angeles, California and New York City. Made in Hollywood also airs a spinoff series, Made in Hollywood: Teen Edition.
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She Hate Me
Title: She Hate Me
Character: Song's Girlfriend
Released: July 30, 2004
Type: Movie
Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.
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Title: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Character: Dr. Sikh
Released: September 30, 2001
Type: TV
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Maya Samra
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Rehana Khemlani
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Goodrich
Title: Goodrich
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Set in contemporary LA during the holidays, the film tells the story of art dealer Andy Goodrich (Keaton), a man whose life is upended when his younger second wife leaves him and enters a 90-day rehab program while also threatening divorce. Goodrich takes charge of their nine-year-old twins, thrusting him into the world of modern parenthood for which he is deeply unprepared. With his career falling by the wayside, he leans on his grown and pregnant daughter Grace for support, and ultimately evolves into the father Grace never had.
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Title: Desi Boys
Character: Lucky
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
A pair of pampered Pakistani-American brothers lose everything when their convenience-store magnate father suddenly die. They are forced to reckon with their Baba's secret life of crime.