Actress Poorna Jagannathan: 'I Want To Portray The Mess Of My Life'
Known for her work on series like The Night Of, Big Little Lies and Ramy, the actress says she's "come a long way" to where she — and South Asian women — are now offered complex, nuanced roles.
Poorna Jagannathan is an actress whose name you may not know, but whose face seems to pop up in many places.
She's had small roles in series like House of Cards or Better Call Saul — and bigger ones in Hulu's Ramy and HBO's The Night Of and Big Little Lies. It's a big leap from some of her early TV roles.
"I often joke that one of my first gigs, Iwhere her character was named after the Sikh religion. "Yeah, so I've definitely come a long way."
