Anya Chalotra is a British actress of Indian descent. She is best known for her role as Yennefer of Vengerberg in the Netflix series The Witcher. Anya Chalotra was born in Wolverhampton, England, to an Indian father and an English mother. She grew up with an older sister and a younger brother in the village of Lower Penn in South Staffordshire. She attended St Dominic's School for Girls in Brewood and trained as an actress at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

In 2016, Anya Chalotra made her stage debut. In 2018, she appeared in the TV series Wanderlust and in the miniseries The ABC Murders; in 2019, she played one of the central roles (Yennefer of Vengerberg) in the first season of the fantasy series The Witcher from the American company Netflix. In 2021, the second season of the show was released, in 2023 the third, and in 2025 the fourth.