Biography
Date of Birth
29 December 1993, Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Name
India Joy Eisley
Height
5' 3½" (1.61 m)
Mini Biography
Eisley was born on October 29, 1993, in Los Angeles, California, to musician David Glen Eisley and actress Olivia Hussey. Her grandfather was actor Anthony Eisley. Eisley and her mother appeared together in the movie Headspace (2005). After small roles in various independent films, Eisley gained a major role in The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008). She played Ashley Juergens, younger sister of teen mother Amy Juergens.
Eisley starred as Sawa in the action film Kite (2014), starring Samuel L. Jackson. At the end of 2014 she filmed Social Suicide (2015), a modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet. In the beginning of 2015 she also filmed the dark fantasy film The Curse of Sleeping Beauty (2016) as Briar Rose. Eisley also appears in the film adaptation of the VC Andrews' book My Sweet Audrina, in the title role of Audrina.
Trivia
Daughter of actress Olivia Hussey and actor/musician David Glen Eisley, younger half-sister of Alexander Martin & granddaughter of actor Anthony Eisley.
Has another older half-brother, named Max, from her mother's second marriage to Akira Fuse.
She enjoys cooking.
Fauna Hodel's daughter Yvette Gentile, on India's work in "I Am the Night": India is unbelievable as our mother. In real life, our mother was like a fairy. She was so deep and so spiritual and at the same time she was so clear and she had such intent of what she was here to do and India brought all of that and then some. When we saw the first screening of it all put together, my sister and I were blown away. She is such an incredible actress and an incredible human being.
Her first nude scene was when she was 23 for the film Look Away (2018). Her mother Olivia Hussey did her first nude scene when she was only 15 in Romeo and Juliet (1968).
Quotes
The only time I was the cool kid at school was when my dad took me to school on his bike. Then I went back to being the deeply uncool girl who never spoke.
[The interviewer asked India draw a lot from the anime or come up with her own take for her character for Kite.]: Not so much to draw from the anime because our version from the anime is kind of different, but I think it's pretty straight forward, she's falling apart emotionally and there's the other side of her that's a killing machine.
[on possibly doing nude scenes when she was 16] I mean, it's the human body. I don't see what's so prohibited about it.
