Sarita Choudhury

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Sarita Choudhury (born August 18, 1966 in London, England) is a British-born actress of Indian descent best known for her roles in the Mira Nair-directed feature films Mississippi Masala (1992), The Perez Family (1995) and Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996). After her debut film Mississippi Masala became an art house hit, Sarita Choudhury was determined not to "go Hollywood", focusing her acting energies on independent film instead. Choudhury stuck to her non-Hollywood roots, putting her exotic looks and talent to versatile use as a Pakistani country-western singer in Wild West, a Chilean maid in Bille August's adaptation of The House of the Spirits, and a lesbian mother in Fresh Kill. Choudhury worked with Mississippi Masala director Mira Nair again in The Perez Family and played the cuckolded queen Tara in Nair's frankly-sensual feminist parable Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love.

By the late 1990s, Choudhury added a touch of Hollywood to her repertoire with supporting roles in the glossy Hitchcock remake, A Perfect Murder and the John Cassavetes retread Gloria. She also played a lesbian virgin in Spike Lee's She Hate Me.