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Lolita Chakrabarti
Lolita Chakrabarti (born 1969) is a British actress and writer.
Lolita Chakrabarti was born in Kingston upon Hull, England, to Bengali Hindu parents from India in 1969. She grew up in Birmingham, where her father worked as an orthopaedic surgeon at Selly Oak Hospital.
She was educated at the Convent of the Holy Child Jesus in Birmingham before moving to London, after being accepted at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she studied acting for three years, graduating in 1990.
From 1993 to 1996, Chakrabarti presented the BBC children's educational programme Numbertime.[citation needed] Other screen credits include Vigil, Showtrial, and The Wheel of Time. She appearred in The Bill as WPC Jamila Blake from 1996 to 1999.
Her theatre credits include Fanny and Alexander for The Old Vic (2018), Gertrude in Hamlet starring Tom Hiddleston and directed by Kenneth Branagh for RADA (2017), The Great Game: Afghanistan for the Tricycle Theatre (2009), Last Seen for the Almeida (2009) (which she co-wrote), Free Outgoing for the Royal Court (2008), John Gabriel Borkman for the Donmar Warehouse (2007), and The Hunt for St. Ann's Warehouse (2024).[citation needed]
In 2025, it was announced she would be portraying Mrs. Darling in the London production of Ella Hickson's 2013 play Wendy & Peter Pan, alongside Toby Stephens and Alexander Molony, directed by Jonathan Munby.
Red Velvet, Chakrabarti's play about Ira Aldridge, an African-American actor at the centre of controversy in 1833 when he takes over from Edmund Kean in Othello at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden, premiered in 2012 at the Tricycle Theatre, London. It returned to The Tricycle in 2014 before transferring to St. Ann's Warehouse in New York. It returned again to the Garrick Theatre in London's West End as part of Kenneth Branagh's season in 2016. Chicago Shakespeare Theater and San Diego's Old Globe Theatre presented Red Velvet in 2017–18. Red Velvet has had more than 25 productions in the United States.[citation needed]
The play won Chakrabarti the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright at the 2012 Evening Standard Theatre Awards. That same year she was nominated for Best New Play and London Newcomer of the Year at the WhatsOnStage Awards. She won the award for Most Promising Playwright at the Critics' Circle Awards in January 2013 and received the AWA Award for Arts and Culture that same year. Red Velvet was also nominated for an Olivier Award in 2013.
Lolita Chakrabarti
Lolita Chakrabarti (born 1969) is a British actress and writer.
Lolita Chakrabarti was born in Kingston upon Hull, England, to Bengali Hindu parents from India in 1969. She grew up in Birmingham, where her father worked as an orthopaedic surgeon at Selly Oak Hospital.
She was educated at the Convent of the Holy Child Jesus in Birmingham before moving to London, after being accepted at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she studied acting for three years, graduating in 1990.
From 1993 to 1996, Chakrabarti presented the BBC children's educational programme Numbertime.[citation needed] Other screen credits include Vigil, Showtrial, and The Wheel of Time. She appearred in The Bill as WPC Jamila Blake from 1996 to 1999.
Her theatre credits include Fanny and Alexander for The Old Vic (2018), Gertrude in Hamlet starring Tom Hiddleston and directed by Kenneth Branagh for RADA (2017), The Great Game: Afghanistan for the Tricycle Theatre (2009), Last Seen for the Almeida (2009) (which she co-wrote), Free Outgoing for the Royal Court (2008), John Gabriel Borkman for the Donmar Warehouse (2007), and The Hunt for St. Ann's Warehouse (2024).[citation needed]
In 2025, it was announced she would be portraying Mrs. Darling in the London production of Ella Hickson's 2013 play Wendy & Peter Pan, alongside Toby Stephens and Alexander Molony, directed by Jonathan Munby.
Red Velvet, Chakrabarti's play about Ira Aldridge, an African-American actor at the centre of controversy in 1833 when he takes over from Edmund Kean in Othello at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden, premiered in 2012 at the Tricycle Theatre, London. It returned to The Tricycle in 2014 before transferring to St. Ann's Warehouse in New York. It returned again to the Garrick Theatre in London's West End as part of Kenneth Branagh's season in 2016. Chicago Shakespeare Theater and San Diego's Old Globe Theatre presented Red Velvet in 2017–18. Red Velvet has had more than 25 productions in the United States.[citation needed]
The play won Chakrabarti the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright at the 2012 Evening Standard Theatre Awards. That same year she was nominated for Best New Play and London Newcomer of the Year at the WhatsOnStage Awards. She won the award for Most Promising Playwright at the Critics' Circle Awards in January 2013 and received the AWA Award for Arts and Culture that same year. Red Velvet was also nominated for an Olivier Award in 2013.