Age: 22
female
Asha Banks is a young British actress and singer based in London. Asha has extensive theatre credits, and has recently finished filming her first feature film, The Magic Flute in which she plays the female lead part of Princess Pamina. Asha made her professional acting debut at the age of 8 years old in the London West End show Les Miserables (at the Queen's Theatre, now the Sondheim Theatre). Since then she has played principal parts in a further five West End and UK productions. Most recently, in 2019/20, Asha portrayed the lead part of Lisa James for the Royal Shakespeare Company's musical production of David Walliams' The Boy in the Dress, at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon directed by Gregory Doran, with a book by Mark Ravenhill, and music from pop partnership Robbie Williams and Guy Chambers. Asha sings Lisa James' main musical ballad 'When Things Fall Apart" on the original cast album of the musical, released in 2020. Prior to this, Asha has played parts such as Violet Beauregarde in Charlie & The Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Duffy in the UK tour of Annie the Musical directed by Nikolai Foster, and the Parsons Girl in the multi-award-winning and Olivier-nominated play 1984, directed by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan for the Almeida theatre, which then transferred to the Playhouse theatre, London, taking Asha with it. Asha also portrayed Pandora Braithwaite in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13 ¾ at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London, for which she earned outstanding reviews. "Asha Banks gives a stellar performance" said The Times, and "Asha Banks on press night - very funny and a cracking singer, surely a future star" from London Timeout magazine while The Telegraph said she was "the perfect mix of poise, aloofness and vitality". The Stage newspaper said: "Asha Banks delivers an astonishingly mature, witty and articulate performance" and London Box office: "Asha Banks already has a considerable record in west end musicals... she has the looks, voice and charisma to be a formidable future leading lady" while The Arts Desk said: "A performance of sensational composure and accomplishment by Asha Banks: she's in danger of singing everyone off the stage." Libby Purves (The Times / TheatreCat) called her performance "outstanding" and the British Theatre Guide described her Pandora as "a teen dream, if ever there was one". Asha Banks had been said to be working with the Brazilian film director and music artist Divan Braga, but that wasn't confirmed. Asha is playing the part of Princess Pamina in the musical feature film The Magic Flute, a modern retelling of Mozart's popular opera, produced by Roland Emmerich's Centropolis Entertainment and Flute Film, and directed by Florian Sigl. The film also stars Iwan Rheon and Jack Wolfe and some of the world's most renowned opera stars. The Magic Flute is set for release in 2022.
Asha Banks
Phèdre nó Delaunay
for Phèdre nó Delaunay in Kushiel's Legacy - Starz Series
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Born with a scarlet mote in her left eye, Phédre nó Delaunay is sold into indentured servitude as a child. When her bond is purchased by an enigmatic nobleman, she is trained in history, theology, politics, foreign languages, the arts of pleasure. And above all, the ability to observe, remember, and analyze. Exquisite courtesan, talented spy... and unlikely heroine. But when Phédre stumbles upon a plot that threatens her homeland, Terre d'Ange, she has no choice. Betrayed into captivity in the barbarous northland of Skaldia and accompanied only by a disdainful young warrior-priest, Phédre makes a harrowing escape and an even more harrowing journey to return to her people and deliver a warning of the impending invasion. And that proves only the first step in a quest that will take her to the edge of despair and beyond. Phédre nó Delaunay is the woman who holds the keys to her realm's deadly secrets, and whose courage will decide the very future of her world.
