Amber Rose Revah played the role as ‘Yasmin’ in LGBT-themed film ‘I Can’t Think Straight’ (2008) while she was studying at Brunel University. The makers of this film cast her as ‘Begum’ in their next (LGBT-based storyline) film, ‘The World Unseen’ which was released in 2007.
In 2008, Revah appeared as Saddam Hussein’s daughter ‘Hala’ in BAFTA-nominated TV-miniseries ‘House of Saddam.’ Next she appeared in two short-films, ‘Henna Night’ and ‘Taylor’s Trophy’ (both 2009) followed by historical-drama biopic, ‘Agora’ (2009) (about 4th century mathematician-philosopher Hypatia) wherein she worked alongside Rachel Weisz.
Further, Revah appeared opposite John Travolta in action-thriller film ‘From Paris With Love’ (2010) and also appeared in 2011’s films ‘The Devil’s Double’ as ‘Bride,’ drama-film ‘Everywhere and Nowhere’ as ‘Yasmin,’ and Indian Hindi-language action-thriller film ‘Aazaan’ as ‘Sofiya.’ She played ‘Maacah Bat Talmai’ in 3 episodes of historical-drama series ‘Borgia’ (2011).
Revah appeared as ‘Helena Landless’ in miniseries based on Charles Dickens’ last unfinished work, ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’ (2012) and played ‘Vidya Khan’ in drama-series ‘What Remains’ (2013). She portrayed ‘Mary Magdalene’ in TV-miniseries ‘The Bible’ (2013), TV-movie ‘Women of the Bible’ (2014), and reprised the role in successful epic biblical film ‘Son of God’ (2014) adopted from the miniseries.
Further, she played guest-roles in detective-drama series ‘Foyle’s War’ (2015), crime-drama series ‘Silent Witness’ (2015) and ‘Midsomer Murders’ (2016). She was cast as ‘Leena Prasad’ in historical-drama miniseries ‘Indian Summers’ (2015-2016) and as ‘Dinah Madani’ in Marvel’s series for Netflix ‘The Punisher’ (2017-2019).
Thereafter, Revah appeared in feature-films ‘London Life’ (2016), ‘Concrete Plans’ (2020), ‘The Trouble with Jessica’ (2020), and TV-series ‘Emerald City’ (2017), ‘The Peripheral’ (2022), miniseries ‘Last Light’ (2022), and TV-film ‘The Trick’ (2021).
The biopic tells the story of 4th-century Hellenistic Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician Hypatia. Hypatia becomes the center of Christian hatred when she starts refuting the claims of the geocentric Ptolemaic system and tells that the Earth is a sphere. As social turmoil between Christians and Jews becomes violent, her allies try to save her.
James Reese, a personal assistant to the U.S. ambassador in France, is passionate about his side job as a low-level CIA operative and aspires to become a special agent. He finally gets the opportunity when he is asked to accompany hotheaded agent, Charlie Wax, on a mission that also reveals dark secrets about his own personal life.
