Tannishtha Chatterjee
Known for Acting
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.
Filmography
Lion
2016
as Noor
Anna Karenina
2012
as Masha
Road, Movie
2010
as The Woman
Parched
2015
as Rani
Brick Lane
2007
as Nazneen Ahmed
Chauranga
2016
as Dhaniya
A Prayer for Rain
2014
as Leela
Jhalki
2019
Shadows of Time
2005
as Masha (Adult)
The Storyteller
2022
as Suzy Fibert
Gulaab Gang
2014
Joram
2023
as Vaano
unINDIAN
2015
as Meera
Meena
2014
as Meena Hasina
I Love NY
2015
as Riya
Angry Indian Goddesses
2015
as Nargis Nasreen
Unpaused
2020
Director
Water
2014
as Kajri
Island City
2016
as Aarti
Interdependence
2019
as Megha's lawyer (segment "Megha's Divorce")