ABOUT NOOR INAYAT KHAN
British resistance agent assisting France in World War 2 operating under the Special Operations Executive, she was awarded the George Cross after she was captured and killed. She was a wireless communications expert sent in to France to relay intel back to Britain, it is suspected she was betrayed by a double agent working for the Nazis.
She studied child psychology at the Sorbonne, and also music at the Paris Conservatory. After her schooling World War 2 broke out and she joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
She was the last operative in her network to be captured by the Nazi's, and when she was given an opportunity to evacuate her post, she declined and kept working.
Her father was an Indian Muslim with noble ancestry, and her mother was an American, born in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
She was portrayed by Radhika Apte in the 2019 film A Call to Spy.
