Nandana Sen is an India

India

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n actress.

Early life

Sen was born in Kolkata

Kolkata

Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...

, West Bengal

West Bengal

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 to a Bengali Hindu family. She is the daughter of Nobel Laureate and Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna is the Republic of India's highest civilian award, awarded for the highest degrees of national service. This service includes artistic, literary, and scientific achievements, as well as "recognition of public service of the highest order." Unlike knights, holders of the Bharat Ratna...

 economist Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen, CH is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for his interest in the problems of society's poorest members...

 and Padma Shri

Padma Shri

Padma Shri is the fourth highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan...

 winner Nabanita Dev Sen, one of the most prominent authors in the contemporary Bengali literature

Bengali literature

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.

She spent her growing years in various cities across Europe, India and America. She studied drama at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute

Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute

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, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

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, and studied literature at Harvard University

Harvard University

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Career

Sen made her film debut with the movie The Doll. She made her first debut in Bollywood

Bollywood

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

 as 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....

's 17-year-old sister in the movie Black. In 2008 she appeared in the British television series Sharpe, in the episode "Sharpe's Peril

Sharpe's Peril

Sharpe's Peril is a British television drama, part of a series that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, based on the novels of Bernard Cornwell.- Production history :...

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Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Language	Notes
1997	The Doll / Gudia Gudia (film) Gudia is a 1997 Indian drama film directed by Gautam Ghose. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Mithun Chakraborty - John Mendez* Nandana Sen - Rosemary Braganza / Urvashi...	Rosemary Braganza / Urvashi	Hindi Hindi Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...	credited as Nandana Dev Sen
1999	Branchie		Italian Italian language Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
	Forever	Nadia	English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...	Short feature
2000	Seducing Maarya	Maarya	English
2002	Bokshu, The Myth		English
2004	The Miracle: A Silent Love Story
2005	The War Within The War Within (film) The War Within is a 2005 American drama film directed by Joseph Castelo. Created by Honet Films and released by Magnolia Pictures, the film stars Ayad Akhtar, Firdous Bamji, Nandana Sen and Sarita Choudhury...	Duri Choudhury	English
	My Wife's Murder My Wife's Murder My Wife's Murder is a 2005 Bollywood film. It was directed by Jijy Philip. The cast includes Anil Kapoor, Suchitra Krishnamurti, Boman Irani and Nandana Sen.- Plot :...	Reena Wadhwa	Hindi
	Tango Charlie Tango Charlie Tango Charlie is a 2005 Indian film directed by Mani Shankar. It got mixed reviews and did not perform well commercially. The movie aims to portray aspects of war and grief and does not glorify these acts.-Plot:...	Shyamoli	Hindi
	Black	Sara McNally	Hindi
2006	The Silence / Chuppee			Short feature
2007	The World Unseen	Rehmat	English
	Strangers Strangers (2007 film) Strangers is 2007 Hindi movie directed by Anand Rai and starring Jimmy Shergill, Kay Kay Menon, Nandana Sen, Sonali Kulkarni. It is an adaption of the 1951 Hitchcock movie Strangers on a Train.-Cast:*Jimmy Shergill as "Rahul"*Kay Kay Menon as "Mr...	Preeti	English / Hindi
	Marigold Marigold (2007 film) Marigold is a 2007 romantic musical comedy about an American actress who becomes engrossed in the Bollywood film industry after visiting India...	Jaanvi	English / Hindi
2008	Sharpe's Peril Sharpe's Peril Sharpe's Peril is a British television drama, part of a series that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, based on the novels of Bernard Cornwell.- Production history :...	Maharani Padmini	English	TV Movie
	Rang Rasiya Rang Rasiya Rang Rasiya is an Indian drama film based on the life of the 19th century Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma. The film is directed and co-produced by Ketan Mehta, and stars Randeep Hooda, Nandana Sen and a newcomer Triptha Parashar in the lead roles....	Sugandha	Hindi	also known as Colours of Passion
2009	The Forest The Forest (2009 film) The Forest is a 2009 Indian film written and directed by Ashvin Kumar and produced by Kumar and Judith James. The lead role is to Ankur Vikal and the film is shot at the Corbett National Park.-Cast:* Ankur Vikal as Pritam* Javed Jaffrey as Abhishek...	Radha	English / Hindi
	Kaler Rakhal		Bengali Bengali language Bengali or Bangla is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam. It is written with the Bengali script...
	Perfect Mismatch Perfect Mismatch Perfect Mismatch is a Bollywood movie directed by Ajmal Zaheer Ahmad.-Synopsis:Mr. Bhalla , a hyper-vibrant Punjabi lives in US along with his wife, daughter and nephew Aman . Aman is in love with Neha , daughter of Mr. Patel , a conventional Patel...	Neha	English
2010	Autograph Autograph (2010 film) Autograph is a 2010 Bengali film directed by debutant director Srijit Mukherji.The movie is a humble tribute to both Satyajit Ray and to Uttam Kumar as it is on the lines of movie Nayak. In fact so much so the central character of the film is called Arun Chatterjee . Such is the influence and...	Srinandita	Bengali
	Prince Prince (2010 film) Prince is a 2010 Bollywood film directed by Kookie V Gulati, produced by Kumar S Taurani and starring Vivek Oberoi and Aruna Shields in the lead roles. The film was originally titled as Prince of Thieves and then Prince  It's Showtime, the latter of which is still sometimes used to refer to...	Serena	Hindi

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