Tannishtha Chatterjee
Actor
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.
As Director
Filmography
Lion
as Noor 2016
Anna Karenina
as Masha 2012
Parched
as Rani 2015
Angry Indian Goddesses
as Nargis Nasreen 2015
Brick Lane
as Nazneen Ahmed 2007
A Prayer for Rain
as Leela 2014
Beyond the Clouds
as Chotu's Mom 2018
Sunrise
as Leela 2014
Monsoon Shootout
as Rani 2017
Gulaab Gang
2014
Shadows of Time
as Masha (Adult) 2005
unINDIAN
as Meera 2015
I Love NY
as Riya 2015
Siddharth
2013
Road, Movie
as The Woman 2010
Chauranga
as Dhaniya 2016
Joram
as Vaano 2023