Konkona Sen Sharma (born 3 December 1979) is an Indian actress,
writer, and director. She has received two National Film Awards and
four Filmfare Awards. The daughter of filmmakerâ€"actress Aparna Sen,
Sen Sharma appears primarily in arthouse independent films, and her
achievements in the genre have established her as one of the leading
actresses of contemporary parallel cinema. She has also acted in
mainstream films like Laaga Chunari Mein Daag for which too she has
received awards.Making her debut as a child artist in the film Indira
(1983), Sharma debuted as an adult in the Bengali thriller Ek Je
Aachhe Kanya (2000). She first gained attention with the
English-language film Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (2002), which was directed by
her mother, and received the National Film Award for Best Actress for
her performance. Her appearance in the drama Page 3 (2005) got her
wider recognition, and she has since starred in a number of films,
most of which have won her praise rather than commercial success. She
won two consecutive Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Awards for her
performances in Omkara (2006) and Life in a... Metro (2007),
respectively. Her performance in the former won her a second National
Award under the Best Supporting Actress category. She was the first
recipient of the Best Actress award at the Filmfare Awards East for
her work in the Bengali film Goynar Baksho (2014). In 2017, her
directorial debut film A Death in the Gunj was released and she won
the Filmfare Award for Best Debut Director. In the same year she
starred in Lipstick Under My Burkha, which won her numerous
international awards.Sen Sharma was born on 3 December 1979 Her father
Mukul Sharma is a science writer and journalist and her mother Aparna
Sen an actress and film director. She has an elder sister, Kamalini
Chatterjee. Sen Sharma's maternal grandfather, Chidananda Dasgupta,
was a film critic, scholar, professor, writer and one of the
co-founders of the Calcutta Film Society. Her grandmother Supriya
Dasgupta was a cousin of legendary modern Bengali poet Jibanananda
Das.
writer, and director. She has received two National Film Awards and
four Filmfare Awards. The daughter of filmmakerâ€"actress Aparna Sen,
Sen Sharma appears primarily in arthouse independent films, and her
achievements in the genre have established her as one of the leading
actresses of contemporary parallel cinema. She has also acted in
mainstream films like Laaga Chunari Mein Daag for which too she has
received awards.Making her debut as a child artist in the film Indira
(1983), Sharma debuted as an adult in the Bengali thriller Ek Je
Aachhe Kanya (2000). She first gained attention with the
English-language film Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (2002), which was directed by
her mother, and received the National Film Award for Best Actress for
her performance. Her appearance in the drama Page 3 (2005) got her
wider recognition, and she has since starred in a number of films,
most of which have won her praise rather than commercial success. She
won two consecutive Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Awards for her
performances in Omkara (2006) and Life in a... Metro (2007),
respectively. Her performance in the former won her a second National
Award under the Best Supporting Actress category. She was the first
recipient of the Best Actress award at the Filmfare Awards East for
her work in the Bengali film Goynar Baksho (2014). In 2017, her
directorial debut film A Death in the Gunj was released and she won
the Filmfare Award for Best Debut Director. In the same year she
starred in Lipstick Under My Burkha, which won her numerous
international awards.Sen Sharma was born on 3 December 1979 Her father
Mukul Sharma is a science writer and journalist and her mother Aparna
Sen an actress and film director. She has an elder sister, Kamalini
Chatterjee. Sen Sharma's maternal grandfather, Chidananda Dasgupta,
was a film critic, scholar, professor, writer and one of the
co-founders of the Calcutta Film Society. Her grandmother Supriya
Dasgupta was a cousin of legendary modern Bengali poet Jibanananda
Das.
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