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'I've ticked quite a few career goals already," says Amara Karan, with a smile: "I'm a fairly aggressive, ambitious, alpha female." Karan, one of Britain's fastestrising actresses, landed her first role within a month of graduating from drama school - for Wes Anderson, no less - as the alluring, enigmatic train stewardess Rita in The Darjeeling Limited (2007). She's worked steadily ever since, spending 14 months with the RSC, including a West End run in The Taming of the Shrew.
This week she can be seen in her most prominent film role to date - as Vina, a young bride in All in Good Time, about Anglo-Asian newlyweds in Bolton. Circumstances force the couple to live with the bridegroom's parents in their tiny terraced house, where they find it impossible to consummate their marriage.
"It's a big role for me," says Karan, 28, when we meet at a London hotel. "I was aware of what it meant to me while I was shooting it. I was excited but a little overwhelmed."
One imagines it would be hard to overwhelm Karan, who is amusing, articulate and speaks in bold, declarative statements. She grew up in Wimbledon, read philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford and worked for a spell as an investment...