Born: 20th February 1990
Episodes Broadcast: 2008-2011, 2020

Anjli Mohindra was born in Edgware, London. Although much of her upbringing took place in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, she spent four years on a German military base, where her father had a clerical posting. Having become interested in acting, Mohindra attended the Central Junior Television Workshop in Nottingham. She made her professional debut in a 2005 episode of Coronation Street. Installments of Doctors and The Inbetweeners soon followed, before Mohindra was cast in a regular role for the 2008 season of the Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures. Introduced in The Day Of The Clown, she portrayed aspiring reporter Rani Chandra through to the programme's premature end in 2011, following the death of star Elisabeth Sladen. In the meantime, Mohindra also made appearances in shows like Law & Order: UK, Holby City and Beaver Falls.

Mohindra maintained her involvement with the worlds of Doctor Who via multiple roles in audio dramas from Big Finish Productions, starting with the 2012 Bernice Summerfield release Brand Management. She continue to make regular appearances on television, amassing credits on programmes such as The Missing, Paranoid, and Cucumber from The Sarah Jane Adventures showrunner Russell T Davies. Mohindra's movie debut came in 2015's Miss You Already starring Drew Barrymore and Toni Collette. In 2017, she could be seen in the telefilm The Boy With The Topknot; one of her co-stars was Sacha Dhawan, who would later play the Master in Doctor Who, and the two began a long-term relationship. Mohindra's work during the latter part of the decade spanned both sides of the Atlantic, including Bodyguard, Dark Heart and Wild Bill in the United Kingdom, as well as the American superhero show Legends Of Tomorrow.

In 2020, Mohindra finally had the opportunity to appear in Doctor Who itself -- albeit beneath heavy prosthetics which rendered her virtually unrecognisable -- when she played the Queen Skithra opposite Jodie Whittaker's Thirteenth Doctor in Nikola Tesla's Night Of Terror. The same year, she provided the voice of the Mechonoid Queen in the animated spin-off Daleks!. Amongst Mohindra's television projects during the Twenties were Vigil, The Lazarus Project and The Suspect. In 2022, she reprised Rani Chandra for both the BBC Sounds podcast Doctor Who: Redacted and the Big Finish audio play The Turn Of The Tides. Chandra again returned to Rani the following year, as Big Finish launched a new audio range under the banner Rani Takes On The World.