Name: Koel Purie

       Daughter of: Rekha and Aroon                      Purie, the editor-proprietor of India Today

       born: November 25, 1978 in Delhi

       red?s the colour: Her apartment is               done up in red. Her overcoat, her clothes,               her sofa and her trademark red suitcase, all               red.

       Profession: Acting

       headquarters: London

Qualification: A Royal Academy of               Dramatic Art (RADA) degree.

Short takes on the        institutes she has been to:

       Delhi?s Modern School ? ?Full of ruffians,               no discipline, academic side zero?

       York University (to read politics, philoso              phy and economics) ? ?Best three years of               my life?

       RADA ? ?Best drama school in the world               with 3,000 applications for 30 places?

Filmography:

       American Daylight (2004); Roger Christian

       Road To Ladakh by Ashvin Kumar (2003)

       Everybody Says I?m Fine! by Rahul Bose               (2001)

Forthcoming movies:

       White Noise by Vinta Nanda

       Nazar by Soni Razdan

Television:

       Indian Dream (2003)

       Dirty War (A BBC drama)

       As If, The Vice, Holby City (Guest appearances)

Theatre: Othello. She played Desdemona at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester Square, UK

Also done: Produced and acted in a Hindi soap, Aaj Ki Nari

Anchored a travel show, Great Escape

Newsreader on India Decides Election Special

She has also assisted Deepa Mehta in Earth