Nisha Nayar

Acting

Nisha Nayar

Born 1972-06-07

Nisha Nayar is a British actress and voice over artist, whose work spans across theatre, film, television and radio.

Acting credits

In America poster
7.1

A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.

In America

2003

The Principles of Lust poster
4.5

Crippled by his writer's block, Paul enters into a new, exciting relationship with risk-taking Billy and super-sexy Juliette. As it becomes increasingly tangled, however, he must choose one of them over the other.

The Principles of Lust

2003

Different for Girls poster
7.1

Paul and Kim meet when their vehicles collide. Paul is fascinated with the attractive Kim. It turns out that the two were childhood friends in Catholic boys' school, but back then, before the operation, Kim was named Karl.

Different for Girls

1996

Sixth Happiness poster
4.8

Waris Hussein’s acclaimed drama is based on the autobiography of Firdaus Kanga, who stars in the lead role of Brit, a young man born with brittle bone disease, which causes him to have never grown beyond four feet tall. The film follows his sexual awakening whilst his family simultaneously disintegrates all around him. An extremely moving drama confronting stereotypes around disability, sexuality and race, featuring a powerhouse performance from Kanga.

Sixth Happiness

1997

The Darkest Light poster
5.0

Farm life in the Yorkshire Dales isn't easy at the best of times, but things are exceptionally tough for Tom and Sue. Their eight-year-old son has leukaemia, and the doctors aren't making headway. Meanwhile, Catherine, ten, feels lonely and neglected; befriending Uma, the first Hindu at the village school, she takes her to the Moors. Something strange happens, which Catherine interprets as a vision of the Virgin Mary, and a sign her brother will be all right.

The Darkest Light

2000

Cracker: Nine Eleven poster
7.0

After living in Australia for the past decade, Fitz and Judith return to Manchester in 2004 for their daughter Katie's wedding. Drinking too much at the reception, Fitz stumbles through a rambling toast, which only embarrasses the bride. Instead of spending time with his grandson, son of his married son Mark, Fitz opts to join in the investigation of a serial killer who has an apparent dislike of Americans in the wake of the U.S. Invasion of Iraq.

Cracker: Nine Eleven

2006

Unicorns poster
7.1

When hard-working single father Luke stumbles across an underground nightclub, he meets Aysha, a beautiful, seductive woman. Their first kiss yields fireworks — which are immediately followed by Luke’s sobering realization that Aysha is not the cisgender woman he thought, but a remarkably femme drag queen. Unable to deny the spark between them the pair are forced down the unexpected path of transformation, where they must question their identities and confront their individual truths.

Unicorns

2024

Bhaji on the Beach poster
5.3

A group of South Asian women try but cannot escape their problems on a day trip to a British beach resort.

Bhaji on the Beach

1993

No artwork available
NR

A reclusive, tongue-tied songwriter chasing a comeback falls for a bold and unfiltered first responder. As their connection grows, his songs must say what he can’t.

From London with Love

Tracy Beaker: The Movie of Me poster
6.3

Tracy Beaker's 13th birthday and as a suprise Cam wants to foster Tracy again. Tracy is delighted. An unexpected visitor turns up at the Dumping Ground, Tracy's real mum.

Tracy Beaker: The Movie of Me

2004

No artwork available
NR

Comedy drama about Donna (Emma Wray) who tells her philandering husband Phil (Philip Glenister) to leave, and struggles to raise her two children on her nurse's wages. She unexpectedly meets James (Douglas Hodge), who runs a smallholding in the country, but the course of true love does not run smoothly.

True Love

1996

Memsahib Rita poster
8.0

Using a blend of magic realism and realist drama, Memsahib Rita looks at the physical and emotional violence of racism. Shanti is haunted by both the racist taunts of nationalist white youths and the memory of her white mother.

Memsahib Rita

1994

Chronos poster
NR

A small part of a seemingly ordinary evening is repeated again and again with dramatically different outcomes for two scientists in a pub.

Chronos

2019