Sunetra Sarker

Biography

Sunetra Sarker is an English actress, known for her roles as Nisha Batra in Brookside, Anji Mittel in No Angels, Zoe Hanna in Casualty and Kaneez Paracha in Ackley Bridge. In 2014, she took part in the twelfth series of Strictly Come Dancing, partnered with Brendan Cole.

Sarker was born in Liverpool into an Indian family. Her father is a retired doctor, and her mother Bisakha taught Indian classical dance, for which she was awarded an MBE in December 2013. Sarker has a degree in Information Systems for Business in Europe from Brunel University London. Her great-grandfather was the lawyer, novelist and political activist Nares Sen-Gupta. She is of Bengali origin.

Sarker has played a wide variety of roles in her career. Her initial success came when she was cast as Nisha Batra in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside from 1988 to 1990 and then returned in 2000 until 2003. Sarker also starred in the regional soap opera London Bridge. This was followed by her portrayal of Anji Mittel in No Angels from 2004 to 2006.

Sarker married Nick Corfield in 2003 and they have a son, born in 2005. Sarker and Corfield divorced in 2009. In 2018, Sarker married Scott Carey.