List of actresses predominantly in Bengali films

• Aparna Sen
  Aparna Sen
  Aparna Sen is a critically acclaimed Bengali Indian filmmaker, script writer, and actress. She is the winner of three National Film Awards and eight international film festival awards.-Biography:...
  
  
• Bipasha Basu
  Bipasha Basu
  Bipasha Basu is an Indian actress who mainly appears in Bollywood films. A former model, she was the winner of the Ford's Godrej Cinthol Supermodel contest in 1996.-Early life:...
  
  
• Debasree Roy
• Indrani Dutta
  Indrani Dutta
  Indrani Dutta is a Bengali actress.Born in Kolkata Indrani is the youngest child of Dr. Himangshu Jyoti Dutta and Manjushree Dutta. Even as a child while studying in Kamala Girls' High School Indrani nurtured an ambition to become an actress. Her versatility was reflected in dance and sports. She...
  
  
• Indrani Haldar
  Indrani Haldar
  Indrani Haldar is a Bengali actress. Indrani, also known as Mamoni, was born in Kolkata on January 6, 1971. Her father is Sanjoy Haldar. She finished her schooling from the Multipurpose Girl’s School and graduated from Jogamaya Devi College, an affiliated women's college of the prestigious...
  
  
• Jaya Bhaduri
• Kanan Devi
  Kanan Devi
  Kanan Devi was an Indian actress and singer. She was among the early singing stars of Indian cinema, and is credited popularly as the first star of Bengali Cinema...
  
  
• Konkona Sen Sharma
  Konkona Sen Sharma
  Konkona Sen Sharma is an Indian actress. She is the daughter of actress and filmmaker Aparna Sen. Sharma appears primarily in Indian arthouse and independent films, and her achievements in the genre have established her as one of the leading actresses of contemporary parallel cinema.Making her...
  
  
• Madhabi Mukherjee
  Madhabi Mukherjee
  Madhabi Mukherjee née Chakraborty is a reputed Bengali actress who has acted in some of the most critically acclaimed films in Bengali cinema.Her major role was the title role of Charu in Satyajit Ray's masterpiece Charulata...
  
  
• Mamata Shankar
  Mamata Shankar
  Mamata Shankar is an actress in the Bengali language film industry of India. She has acted in films by renowned film directors including, Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Rituparno Ghosh, Buddhadev Dasgupta and Gautam Ghosh...
  
  
• Moonmoon Sen
  Moonmoon Sen
  Moon Moon Sen is an Indian film actress. She did movies in Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi and Kannada films. Sen is part of a three generational family of actors and was a staple of the Bengali film industry, starring in many hit films...
  
  
• Raima Sen
  Raima Sen
  -Early life:She is the daughter of Moon Moon Sen and the granddaughter of legendary actress Suchitra Sen. Her sister, Riya Sen, is also in the Bollywood industry. Their father Bharat Dev Varma is a member of the royal family of Tripura. Her paternal grandmother, Ila Devi, was the princess of Cooch...
  
  
• Rituparna Sengupta
  Rituparna Sengupta
  Rituparna Sengupta is an Indian actress. She is the leading actress in Bengali Cinema for the last decade in India, and is also currently performing in critically acclaimed Hindi Cinema.- Early life and education :...
  
  
• Ruma Guha Thakurta
  Ruma Guha Thakurta
  -Early life:She was born in 1934 as Ruma Ghosh. She hails from a Brahmo Bengali family. Her father was Satyen Ghosh and her mother was Sati Devi, a singer. Sati Devi's younger sister Bijoya married film director Satyajit Ray. Thakurta had her formal education in many places including Santiniketan...
  
  
• Rupa Ganguly
  Rupa Ganguly
  Rupa Ganguly or Roopa Ganguly is an Indian actress in the Hindi and Bengali language film industry, as well as television She became popular after playing Draupadi in the hit Television series Mahabharat , and in film is most known for her roles in films like Padma Nadir Majhi by Gautam Ghose,...
  
  
• Sabitri Chatterji
• Samata Das
  Samata Das
  Samata Das is a Bengali movie and television actor. She earned fame for her role as Lati in Buddhadev Dasgupta's film Mondo Meyer Upakhyan.-Movies:* Mondo Meyer Upakhyan * Desh* Lal Ronger Duniya* Nagordola* Ek Mutho Chhobi-External links:* *...
  
  
• Sandhya Roy
  Sandhya Roy
  Sandhya Roy is an actress in the Bengali language film industry of West Bengal India. She is one of most famous actress in romantic bengali movies for her greatest skill in acting and very sweet face from 1960 to 1985.Being a versatile actress,she has experimented with successful character-acting...
  
  
• Sanghamitra
• Shatabdi Roy
  Shatabdi Roy
  Shatabdi Roy , became a Member of Parliament in 2009, having won in the Indian General Elections on a Trinamool Congress ticket from the Birbhum constituency of West Bengal....
  
  
• Sreela Majumdar
  Sreela Majumdar
  Sreela Majumdar is an actress in the Bengali language film industry of India.She has done voice dubbing for Aishwarya Rai in the film Chokher Bali .-Early life:...
  
  
• Sreelekha Mitra
• Suchitra Sen
  Suchitra Sen
  Suchitra Sen ; or Rama Dasgupta , is an Indian actress who acted in several Bengali films. In particular, the movies in which she paired opposite another legend in Bengali films, Uttam Kumar, became classics in the history of Bengali cinema. She now lives a life of a recluse rarely making any...
  
  
• Supriya Devi
  Supriya Devi
  Supriya Devi , also known as Supriya Choudhury , is an Indian Bengali female actor, acting in Bengali cinemas for more than 50 years. Her real name was Krishna and nickname is Benu. She received Banga-Vibhushan, the highest civilian honour in West Bengal in 2011.-Early life:Supriya Devi was born...
  
  

List of actresses predominantly in Hindi films

• Amala
  Amala (actress)
  Amala Akkineni is an Indian film actress and Animal welfare activist. She has acted in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and Hindi films.-Biography:...
  
  
• Anita Guha
  Anita Guha
  Anita Guha was an Indian actress who usually played mythological characters in films. She became known for playing the title role in Jai Santoshi Maa...
  
  
• Bipasha Basu
  Bipasha Basu
  Bipasha Basu is an Indian actress who mainly appears in Bollywood films. A former model, she was the winner of the Ford's Godrej Cinthol Supermodel contest in 1996.-Early life:...
  
  
• Devika Rani
  Devika Rani
  Devika Rani Chaudhuri Roerich was an early Indian movie star.- Career :Born in Waltair , Devika Rani came from a distinguished background: she was the great-grandniece of the Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore and her father, Col. M. N. Chaudhuri, was the first Indian Surgeon-General of Madras...
  
  
• Jaya Bhaduri
• Kajol
  Kajol
  Kajol Devgn , better known as Kajol, is an Indian film actress appearing in Hindi films. She is regarded as one of India's most successful and talented female actors....
  
  
• Koena Mitra
  Koena Mitra
  Koena Mitra is an Indian actress and model who appears in Bollywood films.-Early life:Mitra was born in Kolkata, West Bengal to a Bengali Hindu family. She attended South Point High School and Lady Brabourne College of the University of Calcutta. She has a major in psychology. Mitra was trained...
  
  
• Lisa Ray
  Lisa Ray
  Lisa Ray , born 4 April 1972, is a Canadian actress and former model.-Early life:Lisa Ray was born in Toronto to a Bengali Indian father and a Polish mother and grew up in the suburb of Etobicoke...
  
  
• Mahima Chaudhry
  Mahima Chaudhry
  Mahima Chaudhary is an Indian actress and a former model who appears in Bollywood films. She made her acting debut in the 1997 film Pardes for which she won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.-Early life:...
  
  
• Moushumi Chatterjee
• Priyanka Kothari
  Priyanka Kothari
  Priyanka Kothari , often credited as Nisha Kothari, is an Indian actress who has appeared in Bollywood, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada films.-Early life:...
  
  
• Preeti Ganguly
  Preeti Ganguly
  Preeti Ganguly is an Indian actress who played several comic roles in Hindi movies in the 1970s and 1980s. She is the daughter of veteran Indian actor Ashok Kumar. She is best known for her comic role as Freni Sethna, the die-hard Amitabh Bachchan fan in Khatta Meetha...
  
  
• Raakhee Gulzar
  Raakhee Gulzar
  Raakhee is an Indian film actress, who has primarily appeared in Hindi films, as well as several Bengali films. She is popularly known as Raakhee Gulzar after her marriage with lyricist-director Gulzar ....
  
  
• Raima Sen
  Raima Sen
  -Early life:She is the daughter of Moon Moon Sen and the granddaughter of legendary actress Suchitra Sen. Her sister, Riya Sen, is also in the Bollywood industry. Their father Bharat Dev Varma is a member of the royal family of Tripura. Her paternal grandmother, Ila Devi, was the princess of Cooch...
  
  
• Rani Mukerji
  Rani Mukerji
  Rani Mukerji is an Indian film actress who works in Hindi movies. In the course of her film career, she has received six Filmfare Awards, among twelve nominations....
  
  
• Reema Sen
  Reema Sen
  Reema Sen is an Indian actress and model.-Early life:Reema Sen was born in Kolkata, into a middle class Kayastha family in 1981. She completed high school from Calcutta, after which her family moved to Mumbai.-Film career:...
  
  
• Rimi Sen
  Rimi Sen
  Rimi Sen is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films.-Biography:Sen was born as Shubhomitra Sen in Kolkata, West Bengal. She completed her schooling from Bidya Bharati Girls' High School in the year 1998. She completed her graduation in Commerce from Kolkata University.-Career:Since...
  
  
• Riya Sen
  Riya Sen
  Riya Sen is an Indian film actress and model. Riya, who hails from a family of actors including her grandmother Suchitra Sen, mother Moon Moon Sen and sister Raima Sen, began her acting career in 1991 as a child artiste in the film Vishkanya. Her first commercial success in her film career was...
  
  
• Sharmila Tagore
  Sharmila Tagore
  Sharmila Tagore is an Indian film actress. She has won National Film Awards and Filmfare Awards for her performances.She has led the Indian Film Censor Board from October 2004 till March 2011...
  
  
• Sumita Sanyal
  Sumita Sanyal
  Sumita Sanyal is an actress in the Bengali language film industry in India, also known as Tollywood. Sumita Sanyal was born Manjula Sanyal on 9 October 1945 in Darjeeling, Bengal Presidency, British India. Her father was Girija Golkunda Sanyal....
  
  
• Sushmita Sen
  Sushmita Sen
  Sushmita Sen is an Indian actress who appears in mainly Bollywood films. A former model, Sen was crowned Miss Universe in 1994. She was the first Indian woman to win the contest.-Personal life:Sen was born on 19 November 1975....
  
  
• Swastika Mukherjee
  Swastika Mukherjee
  Swastika Mukherjee is a Bengali actress at Tollywood. She is daughter of actor Santu Mukherjee. Mukherjee's first stint with acting was the tele-serial Devdasi. She made her film debut in 2003 with the film Hemanter Pakhi directed by Urmi Chakraborty...
  
  
• Tanisha
• Tanushree Dutta
  Tanushree Dutta
  Tanushree Dutta is an Indian actress who appears in mainly Bollywood films. A former beauty queen, she won the Femina Miss India universe title in 2004.- Biography :...
  
  
• Tanuja

List of actresses from Bangladesh

• Bipasha Hayat
  Bipasha Hayat
  Bipasha Hayat is a Bangladeshi actress. She successfully acted in the TV, theatre, and film industry and is thus considered one of the leading actress of the country. She is the daughter of the famous television actor Abul Hayat and has a sister, Natasha Hayat who also is an actress on the small...
  
  
• Bobita
  Bobita
  Babita is a renowned Bangladeshi film actress. She has also participated in several NGOs focusing on the welfare of women and children and founded a community seed bank.- Early days :...
  
  
• Joya Ahsan
  Joya Ahsan
  -Early life:In her early age Joya was attracted to music and dancing. Although her father wanted her to be a service-holder, Joya was interested in building her career in music and drawing. Besides her studies, she took a diploma course in Rabindra Sangeet and also undertook training in classical...
  
  
• Konnie Huq
  Konnie Huq
  Kanak Asha "Konnie" Huq is a British television presenter, who is best known for being the longest-serving female presenter of Blue Peter, having presented it from 1 December 1997 until 23 January 2008...
  
  
• Purnima
  Purnima (Actress)
  Purnima also is an Bangladeshi popular film actress. Born 1981 in chittagong, Bangladesh. Her family name is Rita. The year was 1997. A new actress was in search for Motiur Rahman Panu’s movie “E Jibon Tomar Amar”, director Zakir Hossain was busy in searching a new face for the movie...
  
  
• Rosy Afsari
  Rosy Afsari
  Rosy Afsari , also known as Rosy Samad, was an actress in the Bangladeshi film industry. She appeared in over 200 films.-External links:* in The Daily Star...
  
  
• Shabana
  Shabana
  Shabana is a given name for females. People named Shabana include:* Shabana Akhtar, Pakistani athlete* Shabana Azmi, Indian actress* Shabana Bakhsh, Scottish actress* Shabana Rehman Gaarder, Norwegian comedian* Shabana Mahmood, British politician...
  
  
• Shabnam
  Shabnam
  Shabnam from the word meaning dew drops on the flowers) is a Pakistani stage and film actress of Pakistan. Shabnam was active in the Pakistani film industry, Lollywood in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and in the Bangladeshi film industry in the 1990s...
  
  
• Shahnaz
  Shahnaz
  Shahnaz is unisex given name. It means pride of the king from Persian elements shah king and naz pride.Shahnaz is a female Dari name that can be translated in English as "sweet music".In Indian languages meaning glory of kings....
  
  
• Shefali Chowdhury
  Shefali Chowdhury
  Shefali Chowdhury is a British actress best known for playing the role of Parvati Patil in the Harry Potter film series.-Life and career:Chowdhury was born in Denbigh, Wales and moved to Birmingham when she was six...
  
  
• Shuchonda
  Shuchonda
  Shuchonda is a renowned Bangladeshi film actress born in Jessore. She started her career in the mid of 1960s. She performed as heroine at a lot of successful movies in Bangla. Her younger sisters Bobita and Chompa are also very famous actresses in the Bangladesh and South Asian film industries...
  
  
• Suborna Mustafa
  Suborna Mustafa
  Suborna Mustafa is a Bangladeshi television actress.-Early life and education:She was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her father, Golam Mustafa, was a film actor. Her mother was an actress, radio producer and playwright....
  
  
• Sumita Devi
  Sumita Devi
  Sumita Devi was a Bangla film and TV actress. She was born Hena Bhattacharya in Manikganj District, Bengal . She was married to the filmmaker Zahir Raihan.-Film career:...