Indira Varma cast in Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series

Indira Varma has joined the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi series at Disney Plus.

The details of the character Varma will play are being kept under wraps. She joins previously announced series lead Ewan McGregor, who will reprise the role of Kenobi from the films. Hayden Christensen will also appear, reprising the role of Anakin Skywalker, a.k.a. Darth Vader.

Varma currently stars in the ABC legal drama For Life as Safiya Masry, the warden of the prison where Aaron Wallace (Nicholas Pinnock) is incarcerated. She is also known for appearing as Ellaria Sand in HBO’s Game of Thrones, the paramour of Oberyn Martell, played by the Mandalorian himself, Pedro Pascal. Her other recent TV credits also include Patrick Melrose, Paranoid as Detective Nina Suresh, and Carnival Row on Amazon. On the film side, her most recent releases were the 2021 crime thriller Crisis and The One and Only Ivan, the latter of which debuted on Disney Plus.

McGregor confirmed that he was returning to play Kenobi in August 2019. Joby Harold (Edge of Tomorrow) is onboard to write the series after original writer Hossein Amini (Drive) left the project. Deborah Chow, the director who led  two episodes of the first season  of Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian on Disney Plus, has been tapped to direct the Obi-Wan series.

The series is reportedly set 10 years after the events of the third episode Revenge of the Sith. It is one of several Star Wars live-action series currently in the works at the streaming service. Aside from a third season of The Mandalorian, others include: the Rogue One prequel focusing on Rebel spy Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) Rangers of the New Republic, an Ahsoka Tano spinoff series starring Rosario Dawson, and The Book of Boba Fett, which is also a spinoff of The Mandalorian, and starring Temuera Morrison as the famed bounty hunter.

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