Nimrat Kaur, who rose to fame with The Lunchbox last year, has now bagged a role in American TV series Homeland, reports India Today.
Bobby Jasoos actor Ali Fazal was also approached for a role in Homeland, but due to clash of dates he had to let go of the offer. And now, Nimrat is the Indian face who will be seen in the hit TV show.
Along with her, Mad Men star Mark Moses and Art Malik will also join the drama.
Moses and Nimrat Kaur have joined the series for several episodes. Additionally, Malik will appear in at least one episode, reports hollywoodreporter.com.
Nimrat will be seen as a high-level operative within Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, while Moses’ character Dennis is described as an academic teaching political science at Islamabad’s Quaid-I-Azam University.
Malik, best known for playing the villain in 1994 action-thriller True Lies, is playing an old friend of Saul’s retired Pakistani general Bunran ‘Bunny’ Latif.
Homeland is currently shooting its fourth season in South Africa, where Cape Town is doubling for Islamabad.
Nimrat Kaur is an Indian film and stage actress. Starting her career as a print model, Nimrat moved to doing theater with directors Sunil Shanbag and Manav Kaul in Mumbai. She has been part of plays like Baghdad Wedding, All About Women and Red Sparrow.
After appearing in small roles, her Cannes’ first was with Anurag Kashyap’s production Peddlers in 2012, followed by The Lunchbox with Irrfan Khan, which was screened at 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
-With New Age input
