Person

Tannishtha Chatterjee

Acting

Known for: Acting
Born: Nov 23, 1980
From: Pune, Maharashtra, India

Tannishtha Chatterjee (born 23 November 1980) is an Indian actress. She is best known 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.