Get to Know Poorna Jagannathan

Rebel Girls

Stories For Kids, Education For Kids, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Poorna Jagannathan brought us the story of Indian Olympic boxer and politician, Mary Kom. Poorna is an actress and the producer of "Nirbhaya" ('Fearless'), the critically-acclaimed play written and directed by Yael Farber. Based on real-life events, the play breaks the silence around sexual violence and was called by The Telegraph as one of the "most powerful pieces of theater you’ll ever see.” Poorna gained international recognition for her portrayal of a journalist in the 2011 Bollywood film "Delhi Belly" and has appeared as series regular on HBO's "The Night Of" and Netflix's "Gypsy." In 2018 she was a member of the ensemble cast of HBO's "Room 104," created by the Duplass brothers. Most recently, Poorna plays Nalini Vishwakumar in Mindy Kaling's comedy series "Never Have I Ever." [This episode originally aired in April 2019.] This episode of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is produced by Elena Favilli, Joy Fowlkes, and Meg Murnane, with writing by Grace Boyle and narration by Poorna Jagannathan. Jestine Ware edited all scripts. Sound design and original theme music by Elettra Bargiacchi. Mattia Marcelli was the sound mixer.

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0:37.0	Welcome to Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls.
0:40.0	Welcome to Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls. I'm Ellie from Santa Monica, California.
0:46.0	I'm nine years old and I'm interviewing Florida Jack Dawson who was the narrator of last week's episode of Goodnight stories for Rebel Girls.
0:54.0	If you haven't heard last week's episode now is a good time to go back and check it out.
1:01.0	Porta, would you like to introduce yourself?
1:06.0	Hi, my name is Purna Jaganathan and I am reading the episode of Mary Com.
1:11.0	Mary hides her box in career from her parents.
1:15.0	Is there a secret you kept from your parents in your early-acted career?
1:19.0	I absolutely did not tell them.
1:21.0	I was an actor and they found out when they had a dinner party and one of the
1:27.0	guests had seen a play of mine earlier that evening and that's how they found out I was acting.
1:33.0	What character did you most enjoy performing and why?
1:37.0	I, hold on for one second, so I did a play called Nearbya and I told my own story so I guess I played myself and I enjoyed it because there's a real power and beauty and truth and telling your own story.
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