Nimrat Kaur (born March 13, 1982) is an Indian actress who appears in Hindi films and on American television. She began her career as a print model and went on to act in theater. After brief appearances in a few films, Kaur starred in Anurag Kashyap's production
Peddlers, which was screened at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. She followed it with her breakthrough role in
The Lunchbox, a critically acclaimed drama co-starring Irrfan Khan, which was screened at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. In 2015, Kaur played the recurring role of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agent Tasneem Qureishi in the fourth season of the American television series
Homeland. She then co-starred with Akshay Kumar in the war thriller
Airlift. In 2016, Kaur began portraying Rebecca Yedlin in the second season of the American television series
Wayward Pines. She returned for the eighth and final season of
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