After portraying the role of Nita Desai in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 1999 to 2000, she made various appearances in television series including Rosemary and Thyme, Doctors, Holby City, The Golden Hour and EastEnders.
Her parents met while working at a hospital in Nottingham; her father, Khaleque, is a British Pakistani GP, and her mother, Elizabeth, is an English children's nurse.
She pursued a degree in Modern Languages at Leeds University and spent a year teaching English in Spain, where she took up flamenco dancing.
[4] Sarker made her acting debut in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street as Nita Desai in 1999.
[1] In 2018, it was announced that she had been cast as series regular Manpreet Jutla in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale.