Meera Ganatra

Meera Ganatra was born in Uganda and grew up in West London. She began her career extensively touring England, Europe and Canada with professional Indian theatre companies like Vyaas Productions, J P Productions and Bharatiya Vidha Bhavan. She appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in a co-developed and co-written piece with Just Born Theatre Company before training at London International School of Acting in a one-year postgraduate drama course. Prior to this, she completed a pharmacy degree at Kings College London. She has since worked in the theatre with Theatre Lab Company amongst others and performed at Courtyard Theatre, Kings Head, at the Belgrade Festival, Dublin Theatre festival and Athens theatre festival to name a few. Her TV work includes a six-part drama playing a leading role as Neelam in "PREMature." Her film credits include: "The Question," and "Three Dots and a Dash." Her commercial work includes an NHS Public Health Campaign and a No Cold Homes Campaign. Meera took time out to have a family and is mum to two boys and manages both her pharmacy work and acting career simultaneously.