Overview
- Indira Varma plays Mrs Gardiner in The Other Bennet Sister, which is airing on BBC One with episodes available on BBC iPlayer.
- The series adapts Janice Hadlow’s novel inspired by Jane Austen, with Ella Bruccoleri starring as Mary Bennet.
- Varma, 52, is a RADA graduate best known on TV for Ellaria Sand in Game of Thrones.
- She met her husband, actor Colin Tierney, in 1997 during Othello at the National Theatre, and they live in north London with their daughter, Evelyn.
- Recent coverage also profiles Dónal Finn, who appears as Tom Hayward in the ensemble cast.