Sasha Behar

Sasha Behar is an English actress, known for playing Maya Sharma in the soap opera Coronation Street.

Career Behar has two British Soap Award nominations, one for Best Exit and one for Best Storyline. From 2003 to 2004 she played the villain Maya Sharma in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street. The role won her the Best Villain award at the 2005 British Soap Awards.

Her other television credits include Holby City, Hercule Poirot's Christmas, Messiah and Lewis. She also guest starred in the Doctor Who episode "The Fires of Pompeii", playing Spurrina and played Dr Mortimer in Sherlock (2012). Her theatre credits include The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant and The Island Princess, Eastward Hoe and The Malcontent, with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Personal life Behar was born in London to an English mother and a Pakistani father. She is the eldest of three children, having two younger brothers. Behar did her stage training at The Poor School, in King's Cross, London.

Behar has two daughters with her partner, actor Jamie Glover. They currently live in Brixton, south London.

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