Nandana Sen (born on 19 August 1967) is an Indian actress. Sen was born in Kolkata, West Bengal to a Bengali Hindu family. She is the daughter of Nobel Laureate and Bharat Ratna economist Amartya Sen and Padma Shri winner Nabanita Dev Sen, one of the most prominent authors in the contemporary Bengali literature.
She spent her growing years in various cities across Europe, India and America. She studied drama at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and studied literature at Harvard University.
Sen experienced her first taste of cinema while still a student when director Goutam Ghose tapped her to play the lead in his dark and disturbing psychodrama The Doll as one of the targets of a middle-aged man's sexual obsession.
Her first debut vehicle in Bollywood was the Rani Mukherjee and Amitabh Bachchan starrer Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Black in which she essayed the role of a 17-year-old sister of Rani. Her character was applauded by the viewers and the critics.
After teaming up on a succession of projects with Indian directors including Ram Gopal Varma and Nitin Manmohan, Sen signed for one of the principal roles in the jarring, terrorist-themed psychological drama The War Within (2005), and in the process both made a name for herself and began to cultivate a reputation for being drawn to offbeat, challenging, and demanding roles.
In Tango Charlie, she shared the screen space with the likes of Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgn and Bobby Deol. She landed into the controversies due to her bold scenes in the flick as she flaunted her back.
The movie, ‘My Wife's Murder’ offered her the opportunity to work with Anil Kapoor, Boman Irani and Suchitra Krishnamurthy. Both of these movies did well with the audiences.
Later flicks, she did on Hindi abode were ‘Strangers’, ‘Marigold’, ‘Rang Rasiya’, ‘The Forest’ and ‘Prince’. In the midst, she also dolled up other languages’ projects.
The British television series, ‘Sharpe’ added more sparkles to her popularity graph in the entertainment abode. The episode ‘Sharpe’s Peril’ featured her in the pivotal role. In 2007, Sen signed on to portray a young rebellious woman fleeing from law authorities in director Shamim Sarif's lesbian-themed period drama The World Unseen.
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