Tannishtha Chatterjee
Acting1980Pune, Maharashtra, India
Biography
Tannishtha Chatterjee is an Indian actor.
She is best known in the west for her performance in the British film Brick Lane (2007), the film adaptation of Monica Ali's best selling novel of the same name. She has been the only Indian to be nominated for the British Independent Film Awards (BAFTA) as the best actress for Brick Lane. Her other notables roles have been in Academy Award-winning German director Florian Gallenberger's film, Shadows of Time, Road, Movie with Abhay Deol and Bibar for which she won Best Actress at the 2006 Osian Film Festival and the 2007 BFJA awards.
Known For
Acting History
Future
2025
2023
2022
The Storyteller
as Suzy Fibert
Rani Rani Rani
as Rani
Dahini - The Witch
as Kamala
Modern Love Mumbai
TVas Rayman• 2 eps
2021
Cartel
TVas Romila• 14 eps
2020
Unpaused
Director
2019
Interdependence
as Megha's lawyer (segment "Megha's Divorce")
Rakkhosh
as Shoma Sekhri
Lihaaf: The Quilt
as Ismat Chugtai
Parchhayee: Ghost Stories By Ruskin Bond
TVas Lavani
Roam Rome Mein
Director
2018
Beyond the Clouds
as Chotu's Mom
2017
Monsoon Shootout
as Rani
Guy in the Sky
as Chhaaya
2016
Island City
as Aarti
Chauranga
as Dhaniya
Rough Book
as Santoshi
Feast of Varanasi
as Inspector Rajveer Saxsena
Miles of Sand
as Durga
Lion
as Noor
The Kapil Sharma Show
TVas Herself• 1 eps
Comedy Nights Bachao
TVas Self• 1 eps
2015
Parched
as Rani
Angry Indian Goddesses
as Nargis Nasreen
I Love NY
as Riya
unINDIAN
as Meera
Gour Hari Dastaan
as Anita
2014
2013
2012
Anna Karenina
as Masha
2011
Dekh Indian Circus
as Kajaro
2010
Road, Movie
as The Woman
2009
Barah Aana
as Rani
Bombay Summer
as Geetha
2007
Brick Lane
as Nazneen Ahmed
2006
Strings
as Krishna
2005
Shadows of Time
as Masha (Adult)
2004
Let the Wind Blow
as Mona
2003