Anjali Bhimani is a stage, film, television, and voice actress. She guest starred in multiple Critical Role specials and appears in The Legend of Vox Machina animated series as the Head Cleric.
On May 9, 2023, Anjali was announced as part of the cast featured in Chapter One of Critical Role's new horror TTRPG show, Candela Obscura, which premiered on Thursday, May 25, 2023.[3]
Critical Role Productions[]
Player Characters[]
- Miriam Landisman (UnDeadwood)
- The Pain Elemental ("Doom Eternal One-Shot" (Sx52))
- Fy'ra Rai, fire genasi monk (Way of the Four Elements) (Exandria Unlimited, "Guest Battle Royale" (Sx64) , "Broken Roads" (3x92), and "Bittersweet Reunions" (3x93))
- Charlotte Eaves (Candela Obscura)
Other Work[]
Anjali is best known for voicing Symmetra in the video game Overwatch and Rampart in the video game Apex Legends. In live action, she is known for playing Aunt Ruby in Ms. Marvel.
Outside of Critical Role, she also appears as a player in the D&D realplay show Dimension 20 created by Brennan Lee Mulligan. She plays Lady Amangeaux Epicée du Peche in The Ravening War. This prequel to A Crown of Candy is GMed by Matthew Mercer, and includes Mulligan, Aabria Iyengar, and Lou Wilson as other players.
In 2025 she released her own D&D adventure, The Malady of Minarrh, available on D&D Beyond.
Trivia[]
- Anjali has appeared in three Critical Role miniseries so far, or four if we count her role as an NPC (Heera Agneheart's mother) in The Re-Slayer's Take.
- Anjali appears in the video game Overwatch as Symmetra[4] and Apex Legends as Rampart. She is the third Overwatch main cast member to have appeared on the show, after Matthew Mercer and Darin De Paul. Including Travis Willingham, who has a minor role in Overwatch, she is the fourth.
- She played D&D for the first time when she was 8, thanks to her brother. Her character (which followed the rules of 2nd Edition) was Ilajna, a cleric/fighter/magic user inspired by Princess Leia.[5]
- When Anjali creates a character she likes to think about their physicality, and specifically about what type of shoes they wear.[6]
- Elimination games are the only kind of game she truly hates.[7]
- Demons are Anjali's favorite type of monsters, but she also likes the similar concept of people who weren't bad at first until something corrupted them.[8]
References[]
- ↑ See Anjali Bhimani - IMDb.
- ↑ "The Legend of the Cast of The Legend of Vox Machina"
- ↑
HYPE! CANDELA OBSCURA – OUR NEW HORROR TTRPG SHOW PREMIERES MAY 25TH! on CritRole.com .
- ↑ See the Wikipedia entry for Anjali Bhimani.
- ↑ See Anjali Bhimani Interview: Malady in Minarrh, Growing Up With D&D & More! | Nerd Immersion at 1:30 and 24:54.
- ↑ See Anjali Bhimani's interview on D&D Beyond's website.
- ↑ See Anjali Bhimani Interview: Malady in Minarrh, Growing Up With D&D & More! | Nerd Immersion at 8:14.
- ↑ See Anjali Bhimani Interview: Malady in Minarrh, Growing Up With D&D & More! | Nerd Immersion at 25:52.
Art:
- ↑ Photograph of Anjali Bhimani, by Heirlume Photography (source). This file is a copyrighted work. Its use in this article is asserted to qualify as fair use of the material under United States copyright law.