Haiyan Wang
Thinkers50 Hall of Fame Inductee | Co-Founder & Managing Partner, China India Institute | INSEAD Adjunct Professor of Strategy | Author
Anjali Bhimani
Voice of Symmetra (Overwatch) & Rampart (Apex Legends) | Ms. Marvel Actress | Global Ambassador for Games for Change | Author & Motivational Speaker
Few performers move as fluidly between Broadway, prestige television and the world's biggest video games as Anjali Bhimani. The voice behind Overwatch's Symmetra, Apex Legends' Rampart and Ms. Marvel's Auntie Ruby, she has built a global audience of millions. As the first Global Ambassador for Games for Change, she turns that platform into a force for inclusion, creativity and lasting impact.
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Anjali Bhimani biography
Anjali Bhimani is an award-winning actress, bestselling author, and voice artist whose career spans Broadway, prime-time television, and the world’s biggest video games. Motivational speaker Anjali Bhimani is best known to global audiences as the voice of Symmetra in Overwatch and Rampart in Apex Legends, alongside her role as Auntie Ruby in Disney+’s Ms. Marvel and credits on Modern Family, Dead to Me, The Blacklist, and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Broadway musical Bombay Dreams.
Trained at Northwestern University, she launched her theatre career on the Chicago stage, where she performed in numerous productions and originated her role in Metamorphoses, before bringing the play to Broadway in its Tony-winning production and expanding into screen, animation, and gaming. Her voice work now spans more than 30 major titles, including the Fallout franchise, Starfield, Stray Gods, Avowed, and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, making her one of the most prolific and recognizable performers in the global gaming industry.
Global Ambassador for Games for Change
She serves as the first Global Ambassador for Games for Change, the leading nonprofit using interactive media to drive social impact. In that role she has co-hosted the Games and SDG Summit at the United Nations and keynoted the Games for Change International Festival, advocating for how games and entertainment can advance inclusion, education, and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
She is the author of I Am Fun Size, and So Are You!: Thoughts from a Tiny Human on Living a Giant Life, a Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller built from her popular YouTube series of the same name. Through her production company Bad Auntie Entertainment, she also produced the Anthem Award-winning DesiQuest, an all-South Asian actual-play series expanding representation in gaming, and The Puppy Roll, a charitable streaming event for animal welfare and rescue that reaches viewers worldwide.
As a speaker, Anjali Bhimani delivers warm, magnetic, and deeply personal keynotes on storytelling, creativity, inclusion, and resilience. Senior audiences in entertainment, technology, and corporate D&I leave with practical insight into how to build a multi-hyphenate career, lead with authenticity, and harness storytelling, whether on stage, on screen or in business, as a force for connection and lasting impact.
Anjali Bhimani Speaking Videos
Staying Human: Being An Artist In The Age of Technology
Anjali Bhimani Opens Up About the Pressure to Be Perfect | You Got This | Child Mind Institute
Anjali Bhimani Keynote Topics
Drawing from three decades performing on Broadway, in Marvel productions and inside the world's most iconic video games, Anjali Bhimani makes the case that storytelling is the single most underrated skill in modern leadership. Audiences learn how to use story to create connection, drive change and move both customers and teams, whether they are pitching, leading or building a brand.
Actor, voice artist, author, producer, podcast host, ambassador. Bhimani has built a career by treating every new role as a branch of one trunk: storytelling. In this talk she shares how professionals at every level can stop fearing reinvention, structure a portfolio career and turn diverse skills into a sustainable competitive advantage in an AI-accelerated world.
As Global Ambassador for Games for Change and co-host of the Games and SDG Summit at the United Nations, Bhimani offers a rare insider view of how video games and immersive entertainment are being used to advance education, inclusion, mental health and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. A must for leaders in tech, media and corporate ESG.
Based on her Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller I Am Fun Size, and So Are You!, this keynote distills hard-won lessons from a 30-year creative career into a practical framework for resilience, authenticity and self-leadership. Audiences leave with tools to handle setbacks, lead themselves through uncertainty and bring more joy and clarity into high-performance work.
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FAQs on Booking Anjali Bhimani
Why Anjali Bhimani?
Booking Anjali Bhimani is a strategic choice for organizations that want a speaker who can connect with audiences across generations, industries and cultures. With a career spanning Broadway, Disney+'s Ms. Marvel, Overwatch, Apex Legends and dozens of other AAA video games, she brings unique authority on storytelling, creativity and the future of entertainment. As the first Global Ambassador for Games for Change, she also speaks with credibility on diversity, inclusion and using media for social impact. Audiences consistently describe her as warm, magnetic, hilarious and deeply human, a rare combination that makes her ideal for keynote events focused on motivation, D&I, creative leadership and the convergence of entertainment and technology.
Is Anjali Bhimani the voice of Symmetra in Overwatch?
Yes. Anjali Bhimani has been the voice of Symmetra, the reality-bending support hero, in Blizzard Entertainment's Overwatch and Overwatch 2 since the game's launch in 2016. The role has made her one of the most recognized performers in global gaming, and she has since voiced major characters across Apex Legends (Rampart), the Fallout franchise, Starfield, Stray Gods, Avowed and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 (Priya Zaveri).
What did Anjali Bhimani play in Ms. Marvel?
Anjali Bhimani played Auntie Ruby, affectionately nicknamed the IlluminAuntie, in Disney+ and Marvel Studios' Ms. Marvel. Her performance earned her a 2023 HCA Astra Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series. Auntie Ruby became a fan-favorite character, praised for bringing warmth, humor and cultural authenticity to one of Marvel's most groundbreaking shows.
What topics does motivational speaker Anjali Bhimani cover?
Anjali Bhimani's keynotes and workshops focus on storytelling as a universal business and leadership skill, creativity and reinvention across a multi-hyphenate career, diversity and representation in entertainment and technology, and how gaming and interactive media can drive social impact. She also speaks on resilience, self-leadership and the practical philosophy behind her bestseller I Am Fun Size, and So Are You! To book Anjali Bhimani for your event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
How to book Anjali Bhimani as a keynote speaker?
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