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India de Beaufort
British actress (born 1987) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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India de Beaufort (born India Beaufort Lloyd; 27 June 1987) is a British actress. She has acted in several films and television shows, including The Better Half (2015), Kimi (2022) and Night Court (2023−24).
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Early life
De Beaufort is of British and Indian background.[1] She was born to Karen de Beaufort, an actress and dancer, and Nicholas O Ewence Lloyd.[2] Her maternal grandfather was born in Calcutta, where his family lived for around 350 years. She has stated that her surname, de Beaufort, comes from distant French ancestry.[3] She attended Esher College in Surrey, England.[4][5]
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In 1994, de Beaufort appeared in a music video, "Every Woman Knows", for the artist Lulu, and in 1996 had a brief appearance as an orphan child in an episode of Penelope Keith's Next of Kin.[6][7]
In 2002, aged 15, de Beaufort signed to Entertainment Rights as a singer-songwriter and actress. In the same year, she was cast as a principal character in the BAFTA nominated The Basil Brush Show as India Beau. De Beaufort went on to shoot three seasons with the show and performed as a featured artist on the Christmas single "Boom Boom, It's Basil Brush". The song remained on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks at position 44.[8] During de Beaufort's time with the cast of the CBBC sitcom, she performed at Proms in the Park and took part in a nationwide tour.[7]
In 2006, de Beaufort was cast as Maya in Simon Pegg's Run Fatboy Run, directed by David Schwimmer. She has said that this production switched her path from singer to actress.[9] In 2008, de Beaufort was cast as the pagan warrior Aneka in BBC/Comedy Central parody series, Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire. The comedy was shot in Budapest, Hungary.[10]
In 2009, de Beaufort joined the cast of The CW teen drama series One Tree Hill as Miranda Stone during the seventh season. [11]
From 2010 to 2012, de Beaufort played India Jourdain in the ABC Family comedy-drama series Jane by Design. She later had the recurring roles in Necessary Roughness and Chicago P.D.[12] She also guest starred on Chuck, How I Met Your Mother, Castle and The Night Shift. From 2014 to 2017, de Beaufort did her first voice role as Clover in the Netflix show All Hail King Julien.[12]
In 2015, de Beaufort was cast as Jules Jackman in the ABC prime-time television soap opera Blood & Oil.[13] In 2016, de Beaufort was cast in recurring roles on Younger and NCIS: Los Angeles. She also guest starred on 2 Broke Girls. In 2017, de Beaufort joined the cast of Veep.[14] She was also cast in the ABC pilot The Gospel of Kevin, later changed to Kevin (Probably) Saves the World; it was picked up into a series and premiered on 3 October 2017. From 2019 to 2020, she appeared on 7 episodes of One Day At A Time. A remake of Norman Lear's classic sitcom. She played Avery, Schneider's (Todd Grinnel) girlfriend. Grinnel is her real-life husband.[15]
From 2023 to 2024, she starred as assistant district attorney Olivia Moore in the Night Court revival series.[16]
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Personal life
On 29 August 2015, de Beaufort married actor Todd Grinnell.[17] They have a son who was born in 2018.[18] In March 2021, de Beaufort announced that she became an American citizen in 2020 and was planning to have a party for her but was canceled due to the pandemic.[19]
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