Mallika Tatavarti is an actor and writer (and painter and traveler and human girl) based in New York City.

She is currently training in the Drama Division at The Juilliard School as a member of Group 59.

In May 2025, she received her BA in Communication, with two minors in English and French & Francophone Studies, from the University of Pennsylvania. (With a semester at Columbia University in Paris/Université Paris-Sorbonne.) She also studied at the Atlantic Acting School.

Mallika grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She speaks Telugu at home, English everywhere, and French in moments of bravery. She loves art that makes her feel incandescently alive and big and small at the same time.

Some other things she loves: California, climbing, solo traveling, a good farmer’s market, ice cream with rainbow sprinkles, autumn, chaat, dancing, Diwali parties, the feeling after doing yoga, sprinting downhill, swimming in the ocean, and the movie Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. If she were a fairy, she’d be a water fairy for sure.