Konkona Sen Sharma is an Indian actress.She is born 3 December 1979.She is the daughter of Mukul Sharma (a science writer and journalist)
and Aparna Sen (an
actress and film director). She also has an older sibling Kamalini Chatterjee. Sen
Sharma's maternal grandfather, Chidananda Dasgupta,
is a film critic, scholar, professor, writer and one of the co-founders of the Calcutta Film Society.
Her late grandmother Supriya Dasgupta was a cousin of legendary modern Bengali
poet Jibanananda Das.
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She has a degree in English from St Stephen's College, Delhi
which she received in 2001. She was a student of the Modern
High School for Girls, Calcutta , as well as the Calcutta International School.
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She debut as a child artist in the film Indira (1983) and adult artist in the Bengali thriller Ek Je Aachhe Kanya (2000), in which she played a
negative character.It was followed by a role in Rituparno Ghosh's acclaimed film Titli (2002),
opposite Mithun Chakraborty and her mother Aparna Sen.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 in the film.Her appearance in the drama Page 3 (2005)
got her wider recognition from audiences,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.
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Sen Sharma was offered the lead role in Mira Nair's Hollywood film, The Namesake (2007), but owing to clashing dates
with other films, she could not commit to the project.However,
she followed it with acclaimed performances as a mentally ill woman in 15 Park Avenue (2005) and as a middle age village
woman in Omkara (2006). For the latter, she received
both the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award and
the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her next
release Deadline: Sirf 24 Ghante (2006) got
average reviews. In 2006, Sen Sharma made her directorial debut with an
18-minute Bengali short
film titledNaamkoron (Naming Ceremony) for
the Kala Ghoda Film Festival.
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Films :
1989 Picnic Daughter BengaliTV
1994 Amodini Teenage
stepmother Bengali
2001 Ek Je Aachhe Kanya Ria Bengali
2002 Titli Titli Bengali
2002 Mr. and Mrs. Iyer Meenakshi Iyer EnglishNational
Film Award for Best Actress
2004 Chai
Pani Etc. Shanti/Radha JoshiEnglish
2005 Amu Kaju "Amu"English
2005 15 Park Avenue MithiEnglish
2006 Dosar Kaberi
Chatterjee Bengali
2006 Mixed Doubles MaltiHindi
2006 Yun Hota To Kya Hota Tilottima
PunjHindi
2006 Omkara InduHindi Filmfare
Best Supporting Actress Award
2006 Deadline: Sirf 24
Ghante SanjanaHindi
2006 Karkat
Rashi College girl HindiTV
2007 Traffic Signal Noori Hindi
2007 Meridian PramillaHindiDelay
2007 Life in a... Metro Shruti
GhoshHindiFilmfare Best Supporting Actress Award
2007 Laaga Chunari Mein
Daag Chutki (Shubhavari Sahay)HindiNominated—Filmfare Best
Supporting Actress Award
2007 Aaja Nachle Anokhi AnokhelalHindi
2008 Fashion HerselfHindiSpecial appearance
2008 Dil Kabaddi SimiHindi2008 ZeinabEnglishSegment "How can it
be?"
2009 The President Is
Coming Maya Roy English
2009 Luck by Chance Sona Mishra Hindi
2009 Wake up Sid Aisha BanerjeeH indi
2010 Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge Munmun Hindi
2010 Right Yaa Wrong Radhika PatnaikHindi
2010 Mirch Lavni/AnitaHindi
2011 7 Khoon Maaf NandiniHindiCameo
appearance
2011 Iti Mrinalini Mrinalini MitraBengali
2013 Shunyo Awnko Raka BiswasBengali
2013 Goynar Baksho ShomlataBengali
2013 Ek Thi Daayan DianaHindi
2013 Blind
Night NinuHindi
2013 Gaur
Hari Dastaan Lakshmi DasHindi
2013 Shesher
Kabita LabannyaBengaliPost-production
2013 Sunglass BengaliDelay
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Awards :
· 2007: Filmfare
Best Supporting Actress Award, for Omkara
· 2008: Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award, for Life in a... Metro
· 2008: Nominated, Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award, for Laaga Chunari Mein
Daag
· 2006: Zee Cine
Award Best Female Debut, Page 3 (Jointly
with Vidya Balan)
Other Awards
· 2002: Bengal
Film Journalists' Association Awards: Best Actress for Ek Je Aachhe Kanya
· 2003: Anandalok Awards: Critics Choice for Mr and Mrs Iyer
· 2005: Kalakar Awards : Best Actress for Page 3.
· 2007: Bengal
Film Journalists' Association Awards : Most Outstanding
Performance of the Year for 15, Park Avenue
· 2007: Mahindra
Indo-American Arts Council (MIAAC) Film Festival: Best Actress for Dosar.
· 2011: 11th New York
Indian Film Festival: Best Actress for Iti Mrinalini
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