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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1980-11-23 (44 years old)

Place of Birth

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Tannishtha Chatterjee

Biography:

Tannishtha Chatterjee  is an Indian actor.

She is best known in the west for her performance in the British film Brick Lane (2007), the film adaptation of Monica Ali's best selling novel of the same name. She has been the only Indian to be nominated for the British Independent Film Awards (BAFTA) as the best actress for Brick Lane. Her other notables roles have been in Academy Award-winning German director Florian Gallenberger's film, Shadows of Time, Road, Movie with Abhay Deol and Bibar for which she won Best Actress at the 2006 Osian Film Festival and the 2007 BFJA awards.

Known For

Acting

2023

Yellow Bus as Ananda Ishwar
Joram as Vaano
Scoop as Leena Pradhan

2022

The Storyteller as Suzy Fibert

2021

Cartel as Romila

2019

Interdependence as Megha's lawyer (segment "Megha's Divorce")
Lihaaf: The Quilt as Ismat Chugtai
Rakkhosh as Shoma Sekhri

2018

Beyond the Clouds as Chotu's Mom

2017

Guy in the Sky as Chhaaya

2016

Rough Book as Santoshi
Lion as Noor
Chauranga as Dhaniya
Feast of Varanasi as Inspector Rajveer Saxsena
Miles of Sand as Durga

2015

Parched as Rani
unINDIAN as Meera
Island City as Aarti
Angry Indian Goddesses as Nargis Nasreen
I Love NY as Riya

2014

Meena as Meena Hasina
Sunrise as Leela

2013

Water as Kajri

2012

Anna Karenina as Masha

2011

2010

Road, Movie as The Woman

2009

Barah Aana as Rani
Bombay Summer as Geetha

2007

Brick Lane as Nazneen Ahmed

2006

Strings as Krishna

2005

Shadows of Time as Masha (Adult)

2004

2003

Notes on her as Draupadi

2002

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Directing

2020

Unpaused as Director

2019

Roam Rome Mein as Director