Mala Ghedia was born in Leeton, New South Wales, Australia. Her father was a doctor and her mother worked as his receptionist and later as a child-carer.Mala attended an open-audition when she was 16 years old with over 2000 other hopefuls at a shopping mall for popular Australian soap series "Home and Away" She won the role of new love interest, Monique.She studied at university in Sydney and earned a BA in Communications. Later, she traveled to London where she trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts. She worked extensively within the UK theatre scene including work with the Royal Shakespeare Company on Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children". She also played naughty nurse Rabindra Shah on BBC's "Holby City".She is based in Berlin, Germany.