Kubbra Sait
Birth date27 July 1983 (age 43)
Birth placeBangalore, Karnataka, India
OccupationActress · TV host · Model
Years active2010-present
Websitekubbrasait.com
Relatives

Kubbra Sait (born 27 July 1983) is an Indian actress, TV presenter and model. She has appeared in Hindi films such as Ready (2011), Sultan (2016), Gully Boy (2019), Deva (2025) and Son of Sardaar 2 (2025). Her roles in television include TVF Tripling (2016) as Sheetal on ZEE5/SonyLIV; RejctX (2019) as Anushka and The Verdict - State vs Nanavati (2019) as Mamie Ahuja on ZEE5; Farzi (2023) as Saira and Shehar Lakhot (2023) as Pallavi Raj on Amazon Prime Video; and The Trial (2023) as Sana on Disney+ Hotstar.[1] She gained widespread recognition for her performance as Kukoo on the first season of the Netflix original show Sacred Games (2018) and as Phara Keaen in the Apple TV+ show Foundation.[2][3]

Early life and career

Kubbra Sait was born on 27 July 1983 in Bangalore, Karnataka. Her parents are Zakariah Sait and Yasmin Sait. Her mother is from Mysore and father from Ooty. Her younger brother Danish Sait is a radio jockey and television host. Her uncle Tanveer Sait is a politician. Her grandfather Azeez Sait was a minister in Karnataka.

She started hosting shows when she was about thirteen years old. In 2005, she moved to Dubai after her graduation from National Institute of Information & Management Sciences, Bangalore with a degree in Finance and Marketing. Sait started her career as an accounts manager with Microsoft in Dubai, working at the company for three years before pursuing her career in the entertainment industry. She debuted in films with a minor role in the first Emirati feature film City of Life in 2009 and made her debut in Hindi cinema with a supporting role the 2011 Anees Bazmee film Ready, starring alongside Salman Khan and Asin. She continued with supporting roles in Hindi cinema with the films Jodi Breakers (2012), I Love NY (2015) by Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru, Sultan (2016) by Ali Abbas Zafar again alongside Khan, Gully Boy (2019) by Zoya Akhtar, the Netflix film Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare (2019) by Alankrita Shrivastava; Jawaani Jaaneman (2020) by Nitin Kakkar, RK/RKay by Rajat Kapoor, Khwaabon Ka Jhamela by Danish Aslam, Deva (2025) by Rosshan Andrrews starring Shahid Kapoor and Son of Sardaar 2 by Vijay Kumar Arora.

In television she started with hosting Stars Ka Tadka (2011), a celebrity food show on Food Food, and Ring Ka King (2012), an Indian professional wrestling tournament. Sait's first television role was in the web series TVF Tripling (2016), created by The Viral Fever for ZEE5/SonyLIV. She then appeared in the web series Going Viral Pvt. Ltd. (2017) on Amazon Prime Video and Fourplay (2018) on Alt Balaji. Sait's breakthrough came with her role of a transgender woman named Kukoo in the Netflix show Sacred Games for which she received critical acclaim.[4] The Netflix original was nominated under the Best Drama category at the 47th International Emmy Awards. Sait represented Sacred Games at the Emmy Awards, held on 25 November 2019.[5][6] She won the Gold Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (OTT) for her role as Kukoo.

She continued appearing in web series including RejctX (2019) and The Verdict – State vs Nanavati (2019) on ZEE5, the latter a miniseries based on the infamous 1959 Indian court case K. M. Nanavati v. State of Maharashtra; Illegal - Justice, Out of Order (2020) on JioCinema; Farzi (2023) on Amazon Prime Video alongside Shahid Kapoor; The Trial (2023), an Indian adaptation of The Good Wife; and the Amazon Prime Video series Shehar Lakhot (2023) for which she won the Filmfare OTT Award for Best Supporting Actress - Drama for her role of Pallavi Raj.

She portrayed Phara Keaen in the Apple TV+ series Foundation, an adaptation of Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction book series of the same name.

She participated in the reality television show Rise and Fall in 2025.

In 2022, she wrote a memoir titled Open Book: Not Quite A Memoir which was published by HarperCollins India.

Filmography

Films

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2009City of LifeBollywood Fantasy Starlet
2011ReadySunaina
2012Jodi BreakersVinita[6]
2015I Love NYVidya Saxena[7]
2016SultanHerself (commentator)
2019Gully BoyScarlett[8]
2020Jawaani JaanemanRhea
Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte SitareShazia[9]
2022RK/RKaySeema
2024Khwaabon Ka JhamelaShehnaaz
2025DevaDipti Singh[10]
Son of Sardaar 2Mehwish[11]
2026Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai †Filming[12]

Web series

YearTitleRolePlatformNotesRef.
2017Going Viral Pvt. Ltd.NatashaAmazon Prime Video8 episodes[13][14][15]
2018FourplayBrindaALTBalaji6 episodes[16][17]
Sacred GamesKukooNetflix7 episodes[18][19]
2019TVF Tripling SheetalTVF
SonyLIV		3 episodes[20][21]
RejctXAnushkaZEE510 episodes[22]
The Verdict - State vs NanavatiMamie AhujaALTBalaji
ZEE5		[23][24]
2020IllegalMeher SalamVoot[25][26]
Waqalat From HomeRajini TackerAmazon Prime Video[27][28]
2021FoundationPhara KeaenApple TV+[29]
2022Murder in AgondaWaheedaAmazon Prime Video
2023FarziSaira
The TrialSanaDisney+ Hotstar[30]
Shehar LakhotPallavi RajAmazon Prime Video
2025Rise and FallContestantMX Player11th place
2026SankalpDCP Parveen Sheikh10 episodes

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