Aneesh Sheth

Ms. Aneesh Sheth (she/her/hers) is a singer, actress, producer, director, and transgender activist. Born in Pune, India and relocation to the United States at an early age, she quickly found a passion for music, studying piano, flute, and classical voice training. After receiving her BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts for Musical Theatre, she spent the next few years working on tour including with the Broadway National Tour of A.R. Rahman's Bombay Dreams, and regionally with several companies including PlayGround SF, Playwrights Foundation, The Asian American Theatre Company, Village Theater and The 5th Avenue Theatre before returning to New York. Her off-Broadway credits include Southern Comfort, Twelfth Night: Mobile Unit, Public Studio, Public Forum, and Shakespeare Initiatives programs at the Public Theater, as well as Soho Rep, Lincoln Center Theater, NAMT, NYMF and WP Theater. In addition to her two-decade long stage career, she is a familiar face in television and film, having made her network debut on NBC's Outsourced and since appearing in Hulu's Difficult People, HBO's High Maintenance and The Other Two, NBC's New Amsterdam, Insomnia on Revry+, and most recently The Walking Dead on AMC. She is most notably known as "Gillian", assistant to the titular character, in the third and final season of Marvel's Jessica Jones now on Disney+. She also made a cameo in IFC's A Kid Like Jake alongside Jim Parsons and can be seen as a principal in First One In on Amazon Prime. Along with her work in theatre, film, and television, Aneesh sits on the Board of Directors for The Sappho Project, and is an event host, trans activist, educator, and panelist. In March 2013 Advocate Magazine honored Aneesh Sheth on their 40 Under 40 List and in January 2020 she was awarded the HRC Visibility Award at the HRC Annual Gala for her activism and advocacy. She is represented by Take 3 Talent Agency and managed by 1022m Management. April 2022