By:
Irene
Eapen
Born
on
3rd
December
1979
in
New
Delhi,
Konkona
Sen
Sharma
is
the
daughter
of
the
legendary
Bengali
actress
Aparna
Sen.
Her
father
is
Mukul
Sharma,
a
renowned
science
writer
and
journalist.
Her
maternal
grandfather,
Chidananda
Dasgupta
,
is
a
film
critic,
scholar,
professor,
writer.
He
was
one
of
the
co-founders
of
the
Calcutta
Film
Society
with
Satyajit
Ray
and
Harisadhan
Dasgupta.
Her
grandmother
Supriya
Dasgupta
is
a
cousin
of
legendary
modern
Bengali
poet
Jibanananda
Das.
She
has
an
elder
sister
who
is
10
years
older
than
her.
She
is
settled
in
U.S.
Konkona
was
a
student
of
Modern
High
School
for
Girls,
Calcutta
as
well
as
the
Calcutta
international
school.
She
graduated
in
English
from
St.
Stephen's
College
in
2001,
Delhi.
If
not
as
an
actress
she
would
have
become
a
journalist.
Konkona
made
her
debut
as
a
child
artist
in
the
film
Indira.
She
played
the
role
of
a
boy
who
was
Aparna
Sen's
son.
Konkona
is
called
Koko
by
her
loved
ones.
She
played
Shabana
Azmi's
daughter
in
the
telefilm
Picnic.
It
was
during
this
film
that
Shabana
Azmi
nicknamed
her
as
Koko.
Mother
-
daughter
combination
has
delivered
some
good
movies
of
rather
unspoken
themes
like
Mr
and
Mrs.
Iyer
and
15
Park
Avenue.
Her
role
as
Mrs.
Iyer
won
her
the
national
award
for
best
actress
in
her
groundbreaking
performance
in
2003.
It
was
the
first
time
that
her
mother
was
directing
her
in
a
lead
role.
The
success
of
Madhur
Bhandarkar's
Page
3
opened
the
page
3
culture.
Here
she
played
the
role
of
a
naÏve
journalist,
Madhavi,
who
was
shocked
by
the
bizarreness
of
a
culture.
Her
performance
in
this
movie
was
awesome.
Konkona
played
the
role
of
a
schizophrenic
in
the
movie
15
Park
avenue,
the
role
of
Mithi
suffering
from
schizophrenia.
She
has
also
acted
in
a
variety
of
Bengali
movies
like
Amodhini
,
Titli
and
Amu
which
has
made
some
of
her
performances
unforgettable.
Konkona
has
acted
in
English
films
Amavas
a
horror
film
by
Siddhartha
Srinivasan,
Chaye
Pani
Etc
and
Mira
Nair's
The
Namesake.
She
has
got
a
National
Film
Award
for
Best
Actress
in
2003
for
Mr
and
Mrs
Iyer.
In
2005
she
received
Zee
Cine
Award
for
best
female
debut
in
Page
3.
She
received
her
first
Filmfare
Award
in
the
Best
Supporting
Actress
category
for
her
performance
in
Omkara
in
2006.
She
also
won
the
Zee
Cine
Award
for
Best
Actress
in
a
Supporting
Role-
Female,
for
Omkara.
In
Omkara
she
portrays
the
role
of
Indu
who
is
Emilia
in
Shakespeare
's
Othello.
In
the
same
year
2006,
she
did
another
movie,
Deadline:
Sirf
24
Ghante.
Her
latest
releases
in
2007
are
Traffic
Signal
and
Life
in
a
Metro.
She
has
given
a
raving
performance
in
Life
in
a
Metro.
Konkona
is
hailed
as
one
of
the
most
talented
actress
of
recent
times
.
All
her
movies
are
of
unusual
themes
.She
is
working
on
Rituparna
Ghosh's
Sunglass
and
Pradeep
Sarkar's
Laga
Chunri
Mein
Daag.
She
is
hoping
that
it
would
be
a
hit
when
released.
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