the graduate
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan’s first dream job – what she wanted to be when she grew up – was a unicorn. “I’m still working on that,” she deadpans over Zoom. Instead, the 19-year-old Tamil Canadian became an actress. And, just casually, she made her professional debut in Mindy Kaling’s 2020 Netflix comedy-drama series Never Have I Ever as Devi Vishwakumar, a precocious teenager dealing with the unexpected death of her dad, as well as all the usual angsty teenage things.
Maitreyi landed the role over 15,000 hopefuls after she responded to an open callout on Twitter with an audition tape she filmed at her
