Indian actress Nimrat Kaur is well-known for her roles in Hindi films and on American television.

The film Peddlers was featured at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

The Lunchbox, a critically acclaimed drama in which she starred alongside Irrfan Khan, was shown at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

In the fourth season of the American TV series Homeland, she played the recurring character Tasneem Qureishi.

In the movie Airlift, she appeared opposite Akshay Kumar.

Nimrat Kaur portrayed Rebecca Yedlin in the second season of the American TV series Wayward Pines.

She was a regular cast member in the final season of Homeland.

In Pilani, Rajasthan, there resides a Sikh family.

Nimrat Kaur has a younger sister named Rubina, who works as a psychologist. Their father, an Indian Army officer, was killed by Kashmiri Terrorists in 1994.

After this tragic event, the family relocated to Noida, a suburb of Delhi, where she attended Delhi Public School.

She graduated with a B.Com degree from Shri Ram College of Commerce with Honors in commerce.