India de Beaufort (born India Ewence Beaufort Lloyd; 27 June 1987) is a British actress. She began her career as a child actress in the CBBC series The Basil Brush Show (2003–2005). She went on to star in the BBC Two comedy Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire (2009), the ABC series Jane by Design (2012), Blood & Oil (2015) and Kevin (Probably) Saves the World (2017–2018), and the NBC series Night Court (2023−2024). She also had a recurring role in the CW series One Tree Hill (2009–2010). Her films include The Better Half (2015) and Kimi (2022).
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Early life
India Ewence Beaufort Lloyd was born
to Karen de Beaufort, an actress and dancer, and Nicholas O Ewence Lloyd and grew up in Surbiton, an area of outer South West London. She is of British and Indian background. Her maternal grandfather was born in Calcutta, where his family lived for around 350 years. She has stated that Beaufort comes from distant French ancestry.
De Beaufort attended Esher College in Surrey.
Career
In 1994, de Beaufort appeared in a music video, "Every Woman Knows", for the artist Lulu, and in 1996 had a brief appearance as an orphan child in an episode of Penelope Keith's Next of Kin.
In 2002, aged 15, de Beaufort signed to Entertainment Rights as a singer-songwriter and actress. In the same year, she was cast as a principal character in the BAFTA nominated The Basil Brush Show as India Beau. De Beaufort went on to shoot three seasons with the show and performed as a featured artist on the Christmas single "Boom Boom, It's Basil Brush". The song remained on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks at position 44. During de Beaufort's time with the cast of the CBBC sitcom, she performed at Proms in the Park and took part in a nationwide tour.
In 2006, de Beaufort was cast as Maya in Simon Pegg's Run Fatboy Run, directed by David Schwimmer. She has said that this production switched her path from singer to actress. In 2008, de Beaufort was cast in her first adult starring television role as the pagan warrior Aneka in BBC Two and Comedy Central parody series Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire.
In 2009, de Beaufort joined the cast of The CW teen drama One Tree Hill as Miranda Stone for its seventh season.
From 2010 to 2012, de Beaufort starred as India Jourdain in the ABC Family comedy-drama Jane by Design. She later had the recurring roles in Necessary Roughness and Chicago P.D. She also guest starred in the series Chuck, How I Met Your Mother, Castle and The Night Shift. From 2014 to 2017, de Beaufort did her first voice role as Clover in the Netflix show All Hail King Julien.
In 2015, de Beaufort was cast as Jules Jackman in the ABC soap opera Blood & Oil. In 2016, de Beaufort was cast in recurring roles in the TV Land comedy-drama Younger as Radha and NCIS: Los Angeles as Alexandra Reynolds. She also guest starred in 2 Broke Girls. In 2017, de Beaufort joined the recurring cast of the HBO political satire Veep for its sixth and seventh seasons as Brie Ramachandran. She was also cast in the ABC pilot The Gospel of Kevin, later changed to Kevin (Probably) Saves the World; it was picked up into a series and premiered on 3 October 2017. From 2019 to 2020, she appeared in 7 episodes of the Netflix and Pop TV sitcom One Day at a Time as her real-life husband Todd Grinnell's onscreen girlfriend Avery.
From 2023 to 2024, de Beaufort starred as assistant district attorney Olivia Moore in the Night Court revival series on NBC.
Personal life
On 29 August 2015, de Beaufort married actor Todd Grinnell. They have a son who was born in 2018. In March 2021, de Beaufort announced that she became an American citizen in 2020.
