Ritu Arya

United Kingdom 🎬 Actresses

Ritu Arya played Lila in The Umbrella Academy and made one of Netflix's superhero show's best decisions feel inevitable — she walked into a complicated role mid-series and immediately made every scene around her better. The British actress brought an intensity and physicality to Lila that the show's particular brand of chaos required and rewarded, and her chemistry with the cast around her gave the character more emotional dimension than the role might have had with a less committed performer. Arya has been building her career across UK and American productions with the kind of consistency that suggests she's playing a longer game than any individual credit — accumulating craft and range rather than looking for the single defining moment. With 15 images in her library, she's cultivating an international audience that's clearly paying attention to what she does next.