Birth Name: Tannishtha Chatterjee
Birth Date: 1980-11-23
Birth Place: Pune, Pune district, India
Career
First Appearances: - The Little Republic (2002) as
Most Important Roles: - Brick Lane (2007) as Nazneen Ahmed
- Barah Aana (2009) as Rani
- Meena (2014) as Meena Hasina
- Road, Movie (2010) as The Woman
- Shadows of Time (2005) as Masha (Adult)
- Interdependence (2019) as Megha's lawyer (segment "Megha's Divorce")
- Anna Karenina (2012) as Masha
- Jalpari (2012) as
- Yellow Bus (2023) as Ananda Ishwar
- Notes on her (2003) as Draupadi
Career Highlights: - Brick Lane (2007)
- Barah Aana (2009)
- Meena (2014)
- Road, Movie (2010)
- Shadows of Time (2005)
- Interdependence (2019)
- Anna Karenina (2012)
- Jalpari (2012)
- Yellow Bus (2023)
- Notes on her (2003)
Awards
Awards: - Nominated for 1 British Independent Film Award - Best Actress (2007)
- Won Grand Jury Prize - Best Actress (2016)
- Won Indian Competition Award - Best Actress (2006)
- Won Feature Film - Best Actress (2017)
- Nominated for 1 Editor's Choice - Best Actress (2017)
- Nominated for 1 Searchlight Award - Best Actress (2011)
- Won Grand Jury Prize - Best Actress (2016)
- Won Asian Filmmaker of the Year - Asia Star Award (2019)
- Won Best Actress (2019)
- Won Festival Award - Best Actress (2023)
- Nominated for 1 IFF Award - Best Actress (2017)
- Won Jury Award - Best Actress (2012)
- Won Special Mention (2016)
- Nominated for 1 OTT Awards - Best Ensemble Cast (2024)
Full 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.
