Aarti Majumdar better known by her stage name Aarti Mann is an American actress She has starred in several television programs including Big Bang Theory and a part in the scifi drama Heroes Mann was born in Connecticut in March 1978 and is of Indian Bengali Hindu ancestry Mann is a truncated version of Mankad her married name She moved to Pittsburgh Pennsylvania as a young child Manns father died while she was in high school Growing up her family lived in Mt Lebanon and Wexford before settling in Fox Chapel Pennsylvania where her mother Vasanti Majumdar an obstetriciangynecologist out of UPMC Passavant still lives Mann graduated from Shady Side Academy Fox Chapel and studied film at New York University Manns brother Nishad is a journalist and her sister Kruti helped influence her decision to switch to acting Kruti who also lives in Los Angeles is a filmmaker and cast Ms Mann in her 2006 film The Memsahib While filming her scenes Ms Mann said she got bit by the bug to act and enrolled in acting classes in Los Angeles Mann booked a national commercial for Volvo and other roles followed including a part in the webTV series quarterlife which aired briefly on NBC in 2008 She was also a guest star on Heroes in 2009 Mann appeared in the season two winter premiere of Suits on the USA Network Mann was originally cast in the role of Stephanie for the USA pilot Paging Dr Freed but was let go after the table read because the network envisioned a different type for the character