Ambika Mod is an actor, comedian and writer. She began her career as a stand-up, sketch and improv comedian aged 19, writing and performing her own material around the country and at several Edinburgh Fringe Festivals.

Her breakout role came in 2022 in the hit, widely acclaimed BBC One series This is Going to Hurt as junior doctor Shruti Acharya, starring opposite Ben Whishaw. For her performance, Ambika won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Broadcast Press Guild Award for Best Actress, and was selected for the highly prestigious BAFTA Breakthrough programme.

In 2024, Ambika Mod starred in the lead role of Emma Morley in the massively popular Netflix series One Day, based on David Nicholls’ best-selling novel of the same name. The show was a critical and public success, becoming Netflix’s #1 viewed show globally shortly after its release, and remaining in the top 10 for several weeks. For her performance, Ambika was nominated for a Gotham Award for Outstanding Performance in a Limited Series. In 2024, she was also named as one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Europe and included on the Time NEXT100 and Sunday Times Young Power lists.

Later this summer Ambika will take to the stage in September in Every Brilliant Thing, the play will premiere at the West End Soho Place theatre. The play is going to be performed by rotating guest performers including Lenny Henry and Sue Perkins. Coming up towards the latter half of the year Ambika will star in Porn Play as an academic addicted to violent pornography in a new play at the Royal Court in London starting in November. The play is written by Sophia Chetin – Leuner and directed by Rosie Rourke.

Ambika will star alongside Chris Evans, Anya Taylor-Joy, Vincent Cassel, and Salma Hayek in the Romain Gavras directed adventure-comedy film, Sacrifice which is yet to have a release date.

Ambika can currently be seen starring in the TV series The Stolen Girl for Disney+.

At Chelsea Arts Festival, Ambika will be featured on a live recording of The London Theatre Review podcast.