Kamalinee Mukherjee

Kamalinee Mukherjee
Kamalinee Mukherjee in an interview for Pulimurugan
Born	March 04 Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Occupation	Film actress
Years active	2004–present

Kamalinee Mukherjee is an Indian actress. She has predominantly appeared in Telugu films as well as Malayalam, Tamil Hindi, Bengali and Kannada language films.

After graduating with a degree in English literature, she completed a workshop on theatre in Mumbai because of her strong background in it. She made her acting debut in Phir Milenge (2004), a film that was based on the subject of AIDS. Although the film was a multi-starrer, her performance was well appreciated. She gained recognition in the multiple-award winner, Anand.

Kamalinee was born and brought up in Kolkata, India. While her father is a marine engineer, her mother is a jewellery designer She is the eldest of the three siblings in the family. Owing to her "love for being on the stage" since childhood, she acted in all sorts of amateur and professional stageplays while in school and college. Incidentally, she always portrayed masculine characters in these plays. Besides theater, she developed a love for reading, painting and writing. She also underwent several years of training in the Indian classical dance form of Bharatanatyam.

After graduating with a degree in English literature from Loreto College in Kolkata, she took up a hotel management course in New Delhi but left it to pursue a course in theater in Mumbai. While in Mumbai, she also modeled in advertisements for brands such as Britannia, Bausch & Lomb, Neelkamal Furniture, Parachute, Fair & Lovely etc. and was the face of Hindustan Lever's Ayush.