Ananya Chattarjee

Ananya Chatterjee
Nationality India
Occupation Actress
Ananya Chatterjee is a Bengali film actress known for her National Award-winning role in Abahoman.[1] She started her career as a TV actress. She acted in several TV serials and films, including three directed by Anjan Dutt. Her role as a muse of a married director in Abahoman, directed by Rituparno Ghosh won her the National Film Award for Best Actress.[2]
Contents  [hide]
1 Early life and education
2 Career
3 Works
3.1 Films
3.2 Television
3.2.1 Serials
3.2.2 Telefilms
4 Awards
5 References
6 External links
Early life and education[edit]

Born and brought up in Kolkata, did her schooling from G.D.Birla Centre For Education. Chatterjee studied biology at Jogamaya Devi College, an affiliated undergraduate women's college of University of Calcutta, in Kolkata.[3]
Career

Chatterjee was a student in Mamata Shankar's dance institution, when she started her acting career on television, with TV series, Din Pratidin where she acted opposite Rudranil Ghosh, and went on appear on soaps like Tithir Atithi, Aleya, and Ananya.[3] Despite having no formal training in acting, her work was appreciated and she became a household name;[3] soon she acted in several telefilms as well, and did three telefilms directed by singer-turned-director Anjan Dutt, John Johnny Janardan, Ek Din Darjeeling and Amar Baba. She has also Anjan Dutt's Byomkesh Bakshi thriller Adim Ripu.[4] Subsequently she made her feature film debut with Basu Chatterjee's Tak Jhal Mishti (2002), which she followed up with Sharan Dutta's thriller Raat Barota Paanch (2005).[2] After appearing in the comedy, Aamra (2006) by Mainak Bhaumik, her next important film was debutant director Agnidev Chatterjee's, Probhu Nashto Hoye Jai (Lord, Let the Devil Steal My Soul), which was premiered at the 13th Kolkata Film Festival.[5]
In 2009, appearing opposite veteran Soumitra Chatterjee in Suman Ghosh's Dwando she managed to stand her ground and then in Anup Sengupta's Mama Bhagne (2009) where again she her performance was reviewed as "stellar".[6][7] However it was in Rituparno Ghosh's Abohoman (2009), released in 2010, that established her as an actress of repute,[8] and she also won the National Film Award for Best Actress, her first. In 2012 Bengali film Meghe Dhaka Tara directed by Kamaleswar Mukherjee Chatterjee played the role of Durga.[9]
She performed the lead role in the popular Bengali serial Subarnolata on Zee Bangla channel.[10]