# Leela Varghese

> Leela Varghese is an Australian film-maker and comedian. She was a member of the comedy band The Coconuts with Shabana Azeez and performed at the Adelaide Fringe in 2023. Varghese co-directed the 2025 film Lesbian Space Princess with Emma Hough Hobbs and directed the short film I'm The Most Racist Person I Know.

*Film director, screenwriter and actress*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/leela-varghese

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Movie Director ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999))
- **Category:** Directors
- **Born:** 1992
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Leela Varghese (born 1992 in Bundaberg) is an Australian film director, screenwriter, and actress.

From 2008 to 2018, Leela Varghese worked as a presenter for the Australian children's series *Totally Wild*; beginning in 2011, she directed and wrote several short films. She garnered particular attention with the short film *Crush*, which won the award for Best Screenplay at Tropfest in 2019. Subsequently, together with Emma Hough Hobbs, she developed the feature film *Lesbian Space Princess*, which screened in the Panorama section at the 2025 Berlin International Film Festival and was awarded the Teddy Award for Best LGBTQIA+ Feature Film. Varghese is openly lesbian and frequently explores queer perspectives and diversity in her work.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 43.8 / 100
- **Momentum:** 10.0 / 100  (trend: RISING)
- **Historical depth:** 3.1 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 25.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 63.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6154494/ (@nm6154494)

## Sources
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- [Leela Varghese](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2812436)

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