Indica Watson is a British actress from London.
Her first acting experience was in a short film for Somerset House in London when she was five. From this she was auditioned for the second series of the acclaimed BBC television drama The Missing and was cast in the role of Lucy. The series was first screened in the UK in October 2016.
Indica’s second television appearance was in the popular British crime drama Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. She portrayed the young Eurus Holmes (as “Little Eurus”), Sherlock’s secret little sister in the series 4 episode titled The Final Problem.
Indica spent three months filming espionage thriller Deep State in Morocco and Southern England during the summer of 2017. Starring British actor Mark Strong and directed by Robert Connolly and writer Matthew Parkhill, the eight-part series was screened in April/May 2018. Next Indica appeared as a young girl who was possessed by spirits in Channel 4 docudrama True Horror with Katie Jarvis. The episode was titled The Ghost in the Wall.
Indica’s first role as a leading actor came with Martyrs Lane, a BFI-funded art house psychological horror written and directed by Ruth Platt and featuring Hattie Morahan as her mother. 2019 saw the release of Indica’s second leading role in Nurtured, an independent short film from writer/director Ben Pearce. In November 2019 Indica appeared as Charlotte Day in BBC drama Gold Digger starring Ben Barnes and Julia Ormond.
2020’s Radioactive saw Indica’s first appearance in a feature film. She played the young Irene Curie, daughter of Marie Curie (Rosamund Pike) in Marjane Satrapi’s adaptation of the graphic novel by Lauren Redniss.
Autumn 2021 sees the release of The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, a biographical film of a Victorian artist played by Benedict Cumberbatch and also starring Claire Foy. Indica plays the title character’s youngest sister Felicie. The year will finish with the family Christmas film A Boy Called Christmas with Indica playing the part of Little Noosh, a friendly elf in this story of the origin of Father Christmas. The film also stars Maggie Smith, Jim Broadbent, Sally Hawkins and Toby Jones.
The Laureate was released in early 2022 and is a biographical film about poet and writer Robert Graves. Indica plays the part of Graves’ daughter Catherine Nicholson. The cast also includes Tom Hughes, Dianna Agron and Laura Haddock. Also released in 2022 was The Midwich Cuckoos, a Sky One series adaptation of the 1957 science fiction novel by John Wyndham in which Indica plays a sinister child named Evie.