Cast & creator
Anoushka Shankar
Best known for Later... with Jools Holland, Glastonbury, BBC Young Musician
Anoushka Hemangini Shankar (born June 9, 1981) is a British-American sitar player and musician of Indian descent, as well as occasional writer and actor. She performs across multiple genres and styles—classical and contemporary, acoustic and electronic. She has received nine Grammy Awards nominations and was the first musician of Indian origin to perform live and to serve as a presenter at the ceremony. Daughter of Indian sitar maestro Ravi Shankar and half-sister of award-winning singer-songwriter and pianist Norah Jones, she has released 7 solo studio albums since 1998.
12
film credits
6
television credits
13
1928–2026 · acting roles
7.8
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (18)
Showing 18 of 18 credits
Later... with Jools Holland
1992
Glastonbury
Self
1997
BBC Young Musician
Judge
1978
A Suitable Boy
Original Music Composer
2020
Oye! It's Friday!
Herself
2008
Concert for George
Self
2003
Gaia Symphony
Self
1992
Gorillaz Present: The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God
Self - Sitar
2026Gorillaz Present: The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God
Songs
2026
Mission Istaanbul
Playback Singer
2008Gorillaz Tottenham Hotspur Stadium documentary
Self
The Beatles Revolution
Self
2000
Dance Like a Man
Lata Parekh
2004
Shiraz: A Romance of India
Orchestrator
1928
An Officer & His Holiness: The Dalai Lama's Secret Escape into Exile
Original Music Composer
2019
Ravi Shankar: Between Two Worlds
Sitar
2001Yehudi Menuhin: Who Was Yehudi?
Self
2016
Anoushka Shankar: Traveller
Sitar
2012