Netflix star Maitreyi Ramakrishnan has exciting news
It’s as celebration-worthy as her upcoming Angry Birds role
After playing an overachieving high-schooler in the Netflix series Never Have I Ever, Mississauga-born actor Maitreyi Ramakrishnan can now add overachieving university alumna to her impressive qualifications.
Ramakrishnan, whose character, Devi, was based on co-creator Mindy Kaling’s coming-of-age experience, collected her degree from York University, according to photos posted on Instagram earlier this week. “New character unlocked: Maitreyi the university graduate,” she wrote, sharing that she majored in human rights and equity studies. “And no, you don’t need to have a degree to know about human rights.”
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Kaling herself chimed in, commenting, “I’m gonna cry! Congrats little genius.”
Ramakrishnan appeared in Freakier Friday this year and is set to voice a character in an upcoming Angry Birds instalment, due out in 2027. She’s also on the cover of Vogue India‘s November issue.
Elevating her graduation photos just as much as she elevated her role in Never Have I Ever, Ramakrishnan posed in a convenience store with an array of exam-cramming staple snacks—Monster energy drink in hand, naturally.
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Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
