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name: "Tannishtha Chatterjee"
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born: "23 November 1980"
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average_as: "actor"
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updated: "2026-09-17T08:24:15.037155+00:00"
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# Tannishtha Chatterjee

Actor. Born 23 November 1980 in Pune, Maharashtra, India.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 23 November 1980, Pune, Maharashtra, India
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7683695, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1318578/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/87297

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Lion*](https://film.one/film/lion.md) (78)

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## Biography

Tannishtha Chatterjee is an Indian actress and director. She was born on 23 November 1980 in Pune, Maharashtra, and trained at the National School of Drama in New Delhi.

She is known for her roles in independent films including *Brick Lane* (2007) as Nazneen Ahmed, for which she received a nomination for Best Actress at the British Independent Film Awards; *Parched* (2015) as Rani; *Angry Indian Goddesses* (2015) as Nargis Nasreen; and *Lion* (2016) as Noor. Other credits include *Shadows of Time*, *Road, Movie* and *Doctor Rakhmabai*. She won the National Film Award – Special Jury Award for *Dekh Indian Circus* and has directed films such as *Roam Rome Mein* (2019).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Lion* (2016), Fi1m 78, as Noor — [page](https://film.one/film/lion.md)

## Also known for

- *Anna Karenina* (2012), Masha
- *Parched* (2015), Rani
- *Angry Indian Goddesses* (2015), Nargis Nasreen
- *Brick Lane* (2007), Nazneen Ahmed

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