Tannishtha Chatterjee(I)
- Actress
- Writer
- Director
Tannishtha Chatterjee is an Indian actress, best known for her
performance in Sarah Gavron's Brick Lane (2007), the film adaptation of
Monica Ali's best selling novel of the same name. She was nominated for
the British Independent Film Awards as the best actress for Brick Lane
along with actresses like Judi Dench and Anne Hathaway. Her notable
roles include Masha in Academy Award-winning German director Florian
Gallenberger's film, Shadows of Time which is also known as Schatten
der Zeit in German, the film Bibar for which she won the best actress
in 2006 Osian Film Festival and the 2007 BFJA awards. Tannishtha is
also a successful recording artist, trained in Indian classical vocals.
She is working both with Indian and international directors and lives
between her homes in London and Mumbai.
