Nimrat Kaur is an Indian actress who appears in Hindi-language films and on American television. She began her career as a model in Mumbai and then went on to work as a theater actress. In 2004, Kaur made her debut in a two-part music video for the songs "Tera Mera Pyar" by Kumar Sanu and "Yeh Kya Hua" by Shreya Ghoshal.

Kaur made her film debut with a small role in the English-language film One Night with the King (2006). Kaur appeared in Anurag Kashyap's production Peddlers (2012), her debut Hindi-language film, which was shown at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, and then in The Lunchbox (2013) with Irrfan Khan, which was shown at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. In 2015, she appeared in the Showtime television series Homeland, playing the role of Tasneem Qureshi, an ISI agent.