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'', ''

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'', '' The Thick of It'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. In 2015 she starred in the

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mockumentary '' UKIP: The First 100 Days'' in which she played the fictional Deepa Kaur, the first Asian woman to be elected as a

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Member of Parliament. In 2017, she appeared in the premiere production of ''Consent'' at the

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, London. In 2017, she starred in '' King Charles III'' as Mrs Stevens,

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in a 2017 future history television film adapted by Mike Bartlett from his

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. In it, she convinces the King to not grant

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to law regarding the

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, which in turn causes a

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. In 2021, she starred in series 2 of the ITV crime drama '' Innocent''.

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