Tannishtha Chatterjee

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1980-11-23 (45 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.

Acting

2007

Brick Lane

as Nazneen Ahmed

2009

Barah Aana

as Rani

2014

Meena

as Meena Hasina

2010

Road, Movie

as The Woman

2005

Shadows of Time

as Masha (Adult)

2019

Interdependence

as Megha's lawyer (segment "Megha's Divorce")

2012

2023

Yellow Bus

as Ananda Ishwar

2003

Notes on her

as Draupadi

2017

2014

2022

2013

Water

as Kajri

2016

Rough Book

as Santoshi

2014

Sunrise

as Leela

2016

Lion

as Noor

2016

Chauranga

as Dhaniya

2015

Parched

as Rani

2015

unINDIAN

as Meera

2015

2023

Joram

as Vaano

2011

2015

Island City

as Aarti

2022

2015

Angry Indian Goddesses

as Nargis Nasreen

2016

Feast of Varanasi

as Inspector Rajveer Saxsena

2009

Bombay Summer

as Geetha

2016

2017

Guy in the Sky

as Chhaaya

2018

Beyond the Clouds

as Chotu's Mom

2019

Lihaaf: The Quilt

as Ismat Chugtai

2019

Rakkhosh

as Shoma Sekhri

2019

2015

I Love NY

as Riya

2006

Strings

as Krishna

2022

The Storyteller

as Suzy Fibert

Production

2019

Roam Rome Mein

as Director

2020

Unpaused

as Director

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