Anjali was born in Cleveland, OH and raised in Orange County, CA, by Drs. Ela and Bharat Bhimani. After performing in school and community theatre for most of her young life, she went on to earn a degree in theatre from Northwestern University's highly acclaimed theatre school, with a certificate in musical theatre. She performed at several regional theatre companies including the Goodman, the Lookingglass Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and others and to collaborate extensively with director Mary Zimmerman, eventually moving to New York when Mary's Metamorphoses moved to Second Stage off-Broadway and Circle in the Square on Broadway, earning the play a Tony nomination for Best Play.Anjali continued performing on Broadway when she joined the cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bombay Dreams, going on to take over the role of Bollywood diva Rani in the hit musical.
On television and film, Anjali has been seen as tiger mom Nina Patel on ABC's hit comedy, Modern Family. Other notable appearances include Marvel's Runaways, S.W.A.T., Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Grace and Frankie, Miss India America, Silicon Valley, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, NCIS: Los Angeles, The Fosters, Necessary Roughness, Law and Order: SVU, The Sopranos, and more.
Since 2016, Anjali has been known worldwide as the voice of the reality bending hero Symmetra in Blizzard Entertainment's wildly popular video game Overwatch, along with other gaming heroes and villains such as the unbridled expert modder Rampart in Apex Legends, the villainous Nisha from Fallout 4: Nuka World, Yasmin Chowdhury in Fallout:76, and Kala in Indivisible. In the gaming community she is also known for her work as the headstrong Mrs. Miriam Landisman on the series Undeadwood, produced by Critical Role Studios, and as the hardened sniper Stingray We're Alive: Frontier by Geek and Sundry.
