Rakhee Thakrar is originally from Leicester. On a last minute gap year she decided to give the acting profession a try. In that year she auditioned for Silver Street the BBC radio soap and got the part of Roopal Chauhan. That gap year was in 2004, it stretched a little bit. 

Since then her credits include Page Eight, Holby City, Bollywood Carmen, EastEnders and most recently Emily Sands in the Netflix comedy-drama Sex Education. She was also born on a leap year.

Rakhee says: "I knew I wanted to be involved with Sands from my very first research meeting. I played a character called Shabnam in EastEnders and Shabnam and her partner were to experience a stillbirth. I heard in great detail how complicated, devastating and utterly heartbreaking it is for your baby to die and in the months that followed I learned even more."