Satabdi Roy
| Satabdi Roy শতাব্দী রায় |
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Member of the India Parliament for Birbhum |
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Assumed office 22 May 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Ram Chandra Dome |
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5 October 1969 Agarpara, West Bengal |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Political party | All India Trinamool Congress |
| Residence | Kolkata |
| Occupation | Actress Member of Parliament (MP) Politician |
| Religion | Hinduism |
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Satabdi Roy (Bengali: শতাব্দী রায়; born 5 October 1969) is an Indian actress and politician from West Bengal. She has been acting since 1986 in the Bengali cinema and serving as a Member of Parliament since 2009.
She was born in Agarpara, to Shailen and Nilima Roy. Satabdi Roy passed her Madhyamik from Sorojini High School in 1986 and later attended Jogamaya Devi College, a women's college affiliated to the University of Calcutta.
She is an actress, director and teacher of acting in the Bengali language film industry as well as an author of poetry in Bengali.
Roy made her film debut in the film called Atanka, directed by Tapan Sinha, which was released in 1986. (Earlier she had worked in a film called Tina directed by Dinen Gupta, but it was never released.) More recently she acted in Fight 1:1, released in 2011.
She became the Member of Parliament, having won in the Lok Sabha election on a Trinamool Congress ticket from the Birbhum constituency of West Bengal in 2009. She again won from the same constituency on a Trinamool Congress ticket in 2014.
When not working on a shoot, Roy would teach acting at the Satabdi Foundation or spend time with her son Samyoraj Banerjee(Tozo), daughter Samiyana Banerjee(zumi) and husband Mrigank Banerjee,Executive manager of Satabdi Roy Foundation.
Roy won the BFJA Award for Best supporting actress for the film Debipaksha in 2005.
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