Anuja Joshi
Biography
Anuja Joshi is an Indian-American actress based in New York City, Los Angeles, and Mumbai. Born into a family associated with the performing arts, she is the daughter of former child actor Master Alankar and the niece of National Award-winning actress Pallavi Joshi. She is also a trained singer and dancer, having studied Hindustani classical music and performed in musical theatre during her school years. At the age of 18, she completed her Rangapravesam in Kuchipudi, a classical Indian dance form.
She graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, specializing in film direction at the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television. She also trained in acting under Alice Spivak and Grace Kiley in New York. During her college years, she interned at NBCUniversal, working on shows such as Saturday Night Live and Late Night with Seth Meyers. After graduation, she joined the marketing and digital team at USA Network and SYFY, working on projects including Suits and Mr. Robot, while continuing to pursue acting.
In 2018, she made her acting breakthrough as Rivanah Banerjee in the Indian web series Marry Me, Stranger, produced by Goldie Behl's Rose Films and Applause Entertainment. The series is based on the novel trilogy by Novoneel Chakraborty.
Anuja is the identical twin sister of actress Aneesha Joshi, who made her Hindi film debut with Junooniyat (2016), and has a younger brother named Aashay.
