Amrit Kaur (actress)

Amrit Kaur grew up in a Sikh family in Markham, Ontario.[5][6][7] Her parents emigrated from India to Canada before she was born.[8]

She began acting as an extracurricular in high school, serving as the senior captain of her school's improv team.[2] She earned her BFA in theatre from the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design at York University in Toronto.[5][7][9]

At the age of 18, Kaur was a participant in the 2014 Miss World Canada beauty pageant.[10][8] She has acted in various American and Canadian television shows, including American Gothic, Kim's Convenience, Hudson & Rex, Nurses, and The D Cut. Kaur also played Pasha in the 2017 Canadian film Brown Girl Begins and had appeared as Jessie in the 2018 romantic comedy film Little Italy.[11]

Kaur was cast as freshman Bela Malhotra on Mindy Kaling's television series, The Sex Lives of College Girls, which premiered on HBO Max in November 2021 and was renewed for a second season the following month. She auditioned for the role despite not having the required O-1 Visa, which allows "individuals with extraordinary ability to achievement" to work in the United States for up to three years.[3] Because the producers discovered that she didn't have the visa, they canceled her callback but later gave her another chance. She then advanced to the final round of auditions but her O-1 Visa application was rejected. However, all of producers on the show – including Kaling – wrote letters urging the U.S. government to accept her visa, which was later approved.[1]