Shweta Prasad
| Shweta Basu Prasad | |
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| Born |
Shweta Basu Prasad 11 January 1991 Jamshedpur, Bihar, India (Now in Jharkhand) |
| Residence | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2002–present |
Shweta Basu Prasad is an Indian film actress. She started her career as a child actress in Hindi films and television series and went on to play lead roles in Bengali, Telugu and Tamil cinema. For her performance in the 2002 film Makdee, she won the National Film Award for Best Child Actor
Shwetha basu Prasad was born in Jamshedpur on jan 11 of 1991, Bihar (now in Jharkhand) and later migrated with her family to Mumbai when she was a child. Her father Anuj is from Bihar while her mother Sarmishta is from West Bengal.
Shweta's grandfather retired as a chief operating officer in Intelligence Bureau, new Delhi. Her father Anuj is a direction and acting diploma holder from Shreeram Centre, New Delhi. They later settled in Jamshedpur, where he married Shweta's mother, a musician and writer Sarmistha after 1 year's courtship in 1990 and they had Shweta the following year.
She studied commerce in the R. N. Podar High School, Santacruz, Mumbai. She added her mother's maiden name Basu to her screen name.
In 2002, Prasad started her acting career as a child actress at the age of 11. She enacted dual roles as Chunni and Munni in the film Makdee, directed by Vishal Bhardwaj and got the National Film Award for Best Child Artist for the same. As a child artist, she also acted in the Star Plus series Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii as Shruti, daughter of Parvati and Om, and in soap operas like Karishma Kaa Karishma.
In 2005, she starred in the film Iqbal. Her performance as Khadija in the film, fetched her several accolades including the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 5th Karachi International Film Festival.
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