Freida Pinto to play spy Noor Inayat Khan in new series

Actress Freida Pinto will be essaying the role of Britain’s World War II spy Noor Inayat Khan in an upcoming limited series. Based on Shrabani Basu’s Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan, the project hails from writer Olivia Hetreed and Red Room Films. Khan was born in Moscow in 1914 to Indian father Hazrat Inayat Khan and American mother Ora Ray Baker. She was sent to Nazi-occupied France in 1943 as an undercover radio operator for Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE). But Khan was betrayed, arrested and killed in Dachau Concentration Camp at the age of 30.