Debashree Roy
| Debasree Roy | |
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| দেবশ্রী রায় | |
| MLA | |
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Assumed office 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Kanti Ganguly |
| Constituency | Raidighi, West Bengal |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
8 August 1961 Kolkata, India |
| Political party | All India Trinamool Congress |
| Spouse(s) | Prosenjit Chatterjee (1992-1995,divorced) |
| Parents | Birendra Kishore Roy (Father) Arati Roy (Mother) |
| Relatives | Rani Mukerjee (Niece) |
| Occupation | Actress MLA Politician |
Debashree Roy (born 8 August 1961) is an Indian actress, politician and social activist. She is known for her work in Bengali cinema. She acted in more than 100 films and has won 40 awards, including a National Film Award for Best Actress for the film Unishe April in 1995. In some of her films as a child actress she used the screen name Kumari Chumki. She acted with the screen-name Chintamani in the Tamil film industry.
Roy was born to Birendra Kishore Roy and Arati Roy of Kolkata, West Bengal and was brought up there. At the age of 5, she acted in the movie Pagol Thakur (1967), directed by Hirammoy Sen. In 1969, she appeared as a child artist in the movie Balak Gadadhar. In these films, she was credited by the name Kumari Chumki. Then, at the age of 9, she appeared in the movie Kuheli (inspired by Rebecca) directed by Tarun Majumdar.
She is a well-known Odissi dancer. She started her dancing career as a stage performer in her early years. She took her dancing lessons from her mother, her elder sister Purnima Roy, Bandana Sen and Kelucharan Mahapatra. She had her own dance group Nataraj.
Roy was very successful in Bengali films landing important lead roles in commercial as well as parallel cinema. The high point of her career was her National Award winning role of a young doctor from a dysfunctional family in the Rituparno Ghosh film Unishe April. In the televised version of the Indian epic Mahabharata, directed by B.R.Chopra, she portrayed the role of Satyavati, second wife of the king Shantanu of Hastinapur, stepmother of Gangaputra Bheeshma, and mother of Chitrangada and Vichitravirya.
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