Born abroad and raised in New York City, Purva Bedi is a multi-lingual actress of film, television and stage and also a deviser of new work. A true craftswoman, she jumps headfirst into her projects across all media and looks for the personal truth and authenticity in every character she plays thus bringing variety and dynamism to every performance.

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TV Guest Star & Recurring: One of Us is Lying, She's Gotta Have It Too, Madam Secretary, Billions, The Code, Person of Interest, Nurse Jackie, The Good Wife, Unforgettable, A Gifted Man, Law & Order (Criminal Intent, SVU, and original), Gossip Girl, Cashmere Mafia, House M.D., The West Wing, The Drew Carey Show, Boston Legal, Alias, Strong Medicine, Fastlane, ER and Natural Reboot (Series Regular Host).

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Feature Films: The Assistant, Sully, Equity, Rare Objects, Gabriel’s Rapture, Homebody, Americanish, Queen of Glory, A Walk Among the Tombstones, Adjustment Bureau, Kumare, The Surrogate, Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn, Green Card Fever, The Emperor's Club, Ball & Chain, Love 'N Dancing, Wings of Hope and American Desi.

 

Theater: Wives (dir. Margot Bordelon Playwrights Horizons), Dance Nation (dir. Lee Sunday Evans Playwrights Horizons), India Pale Ale (dir. Will David Manhattan Theater Club), An Ordinary Muslim (dir. Jo Bonney New York Theatre Workshop ), Uncommon Sense (dir. Andy Paris Tectonic Theater Project), Idiot (dir. Kristin Marting HERE Arts), Assembled Identity (dir. Krisitin Marting HERE), Veil'd (Womens Project), There or Here, Parts & Parts of Stitches, East is East (dir. Scott Elliott MTC/New Group), My Wandering Boy (dir. Bill Rauch South Coast Rep), The Rise of Dorothy Hale (dir, Pamela Hall, St Lukes’s), Rice Boy (dir. Chay Yew Mark Taper Forum Taper Too). With Target Margin Theatre: Reread Another, The Tempest, Second Language, Ten Blocks on the Camino Real, Old Comedy, These Very Serious Jokes, The 5 Hysterical Girls Theorem, The Seagull, Sonoma. 

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Purva loves to workshop new plays and has done so at at theaters which include The Public, A.C.T., Playwrights Horizons, Long Wharf Theatre, The Lark, New Dramatists, Ars Nova and The Atlantic Theatre. 

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Purva is a member of The Actor's Center Workshop Company, an Associate Artist an don the Board of Directors with Target Margin Theater and Founding member of Disha Theatre. She studied at Williams College, The British American Drama Academy and the Public Theatre Shakespeare Lab. Purva also teaches acting at the Anthony Meindl Acting Workshop and The Prep. 

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Purva lives in New York City with her best collaborator and husband, David Andrew Stoler, where she plays her most challenging and favorite role: mother to their two small children and their two large cats.