Mahira Kakkar is a New York Citybased actor who has worked in film television and theater Born in Kolkata India she is a proud graduate of Jadavpur University BA English Literature gold medal and The Juilliard Schools Drama Division Since then she has appeared in numerous plays both in New York and around the world and in many television shows and films She is drawn to wit humor physical and languagedriven pieces She speaks Hindi and English and is happy to call both the United States and India home Mahira is also a dialect coach specifically for Indian accents and a writer