Dinita Gohil
{{Short description|British actress}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
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| birth_place = Hodge Hill, Birmingham, England
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| alma_mater = Royal Holloway, University of London
Guildhall School of Music and Drama (MA)
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1999–present
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Dinita Gohil is a British actress. She is best known for her performance as Amanda in the satirical film Greed (2019), and on-stage as Viola in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Twelfth Night (2017–2018).
Early life
Dinita Gohil was born in Hodge Hill, Birmingham. She was educated at Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls, and later studied Spanish and French language at Royal Holloway, University of London. Gohil received a Master of Arts from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she studied acting for three years.{{cite web |title=Rising Star: Dinita Gohil |url=https://warks.muddystilettos.co.uk/people/rising-star-dinita-gohil |website=Muddy Stilettos: Warwickshire |access-date=12 July 2021 |language=en |date=5 November 2017}}{{cite web |title=Dinita Gohil {{!}} Spotlight |url=https://www.spotlight.com/1093-6755-1936 |website=Spotlight |access-date=12 July 2021}}
Career
Before acting, Gohil worked as a translator. In 1999, Gohil began her on-screen acting career in the post-apocalyptic miniseries, The Last Train as Anita Nixon.{{cite web |last1=Kessler |first1=P L |title=The Last Train |url=https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/Guide/LastTrain.htm |website=The History Files |access-date=2 January 2022 |date=2 May 2001}} In 2017, Gohil played Sajani in the National Geographic documentary and science fiction television series, Year Million.{{cite web |author1=Pioneer.hu |title=Year Million |url=https://pioneer.hu/films/year-million |website=Pioneer Stillking Films |access-date=2 January 2022 |language=en |date=3 November 2016}}
From 2017 to 2018, Gohil played Viola in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Twelfth Night, written by William Shakespeare. In a three-star review for The Guardian, Michael Billington called Gohil's performance "the best performance of the evening, [...] a bright-eyed figure who surrenders happily to Orsino's kisses and who delivers the famous "willow cabin" speech with a level of rapture I have not heard in ages."{{cite web |author1=Michael Billington |title=Twelfth Night review – fun and fury from Ade Edmondson and Kara Tointon at the RSC |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/nov/10/twelfth-night-review-ade-edmondson-kara-tointon-royal-shakespeare-theatre |website=The Guardian |access-date=12 July 2021 |language=en |date=10 November 2017}}
In 2019, Gohil played a leading role in the 2019 satirical film Greed as Amanda, a personal assistant of Sir Richard McCreadie (played by Steve Coogan).{{cite web |last1=Wiseman |first1=Andreas |title=Sony & Film4 Wrap Steve Coogan Pic 'Greed'; Sophie Cookson, Asa Butterfield, Stephen Fry Join Cast |url=https://deadline.com/2018/12/steve-coogan-sony-film4-greed-sophie-cookson-asa-butterfield-1202514268 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181206102429/https://deadline.com/2018/12/steve-coogan-sony-film4-greed-sophie-cookson-asa-butterfield-1202514268/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=6 December 2018 |website=Deadline Hollywood |access-date=2 January 2022 |date=5 December 2018}}{{cite web |last1=Debruge |first1=Peter |title='Greed': Film Review |url=https://variety.com/2020/film/reviews/greed-review-steve-coogan-1203467632 |website=Variety |access-date=1 January 2022 |date=21 February 2020}} In April 2020, The Royal Shakespeare Company released the 2017 production of Twelfth Night which Gohil features in as Viola, on the streaming service Marquee TV.{{cite web |last1=Wood |first1=Alex |title=RSC and Marquee TV to release Twelfth Night with Kara Tointon, Dinita Gohil and Ade Edmondson |url=https://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/rsc-marquee-tv-rsc-twelfth-night_51272.html |website=WhatsOnStage.com |access-date=2 January 2022 |date=27 March 2020}}
In September 2023, Gohil played Annette Raleigh in the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith production of God of Carnage alongside Freema Agyeman.{{cite web |last1=Akbar |first1=Arifa |title=God of Carnage review – deliciously savage satire still has plenty of bite |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/sep/08/god-of-carnage-review-lyric-hammersmith-london |website=The Guardian |access-date=February 2, 2024 |date=September 8, 2023}}
Filmography
=Television=
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| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
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| 1999
| Anita Nixon |
| 2014
| Doctors | Penny Glover | Episode: "Dorian Blue" |
| 2016
| Jamila Shahjee | Episode: "Series 5, episode 4" |
| 2016
| PC Louise Tunstall | Episode: "Case 1, Part 3" |
| 2016
| Our Girl | Saira Abbasi | Episode: "Series 2, episode 5" |
| 2017
| Sajani |
| 2019
| Sarah | Episode: "By Any Other Name" |
| 2019
| Nurse Beth | Episode: "Series 1, episode 2" |
| 2019
| Clink | Sami Gilani | 3 episodes |
| 2020
| Flack | Narinda | Episode: "Danny & Deepak" |
| 2020
| Viola | 2017 RSC production of Twelfth Night |
| 2022
| Our House | Lucy Vaughan |
| 2022
| Recurring |
| 2022
| Treason | Zoe | 4 episodes |
| 2023
| Bela Nasir | 2 episodes |
| 2024
| DI Ray | Amara Dhawan | 4 episodes{{cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0324743/ | title=Dinita Gohil | Actress | website=IMDb }} |
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=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 2015
| MTV Newsreader | |
| 2016
| Farhana Awan | |
| 2017
| Linda | |
| 2017
| Kiran Chahal | {{cite web |last1=Graham |first1=Alison |title=The Boy with the Topknot |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-ac60og/the-boy-with-the-topknot |website=Radio Times |access-date=1 January 2022 |language=en}} |
| 2019
| Greed | Amanda |
Stage
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
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| 2017–2018
| RSC Live: Twelfth Night | Viola |
| 2023
| Annette |
References
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External links
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Category:20th-century English actresses
Category:21st-century English actresses
Category:Actresses from Birmingham, West Midlands
Category:Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Category:Alumni of Royal Holloway, University of London
Category:English film actresses
Category:English people of Indian descent
Category:English Shakespearean actresses
Category:English stage actresses
Category:English television actresses
Category:People educated at Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls