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  3. Nandana Sen is an international actress, screenwriter, children's author and child-rights activist. Wikipedia
  5. Born: August 19, 1967 (age 48), Kolkata
  6. Spouse: John Makinson (m. 2013)
  7. Parents: Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Amartya Sen
  8. Siblings: Antara Dev Sen, Indrani Sen, Kabir Sen
  9. Grandparents: Amita Sen, Ashutosh Sen
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Nandana Sen (Bengali: নন্দনা সেন) (or Nandana Dev Sen) is an upcoming Indian actress, known for her work in Bollywood.


Early life and background
Her father is Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen and mother is Bengali writer Nabanita Dev Sen. She was born in Calcutta. She spent her childhood in India and the USA.

Career
Sen started her career with the movie The Doll. In 2008 she appeared in the British television series Sharpe, in the episode Sharpe's Peril.

Personal life
She is dating producer Madhu Mantena. She was married to Horst Yorgan Rutstch.
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  2. Nandana Sen
    Actress
  3. Nandana Sen is an international actress, screenwriter, children's author and child-rights activist. Wikipedia
  5. Born: August 19, 1967 (age 48), Kolkata
  6. Spouse: John Makinson (m. 2013)
  7. Parents: Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Amartya Sen
  8. Siblings: Antara Dev Sen, Indrani Sen, Kabir Sen
  9. Grandparents: Amita Sen, Ashutosh Sen
  10. Movies
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    Rang Rasiya (2008)
    Rang Rasiya
    2008
    Tango Charlie (2005)
    Tango Charlie
    2005
    The Forest (2009)
    The Forest
    2009
    Seducing Maarya (2000)
    Seducing Maarya
    2000
    Prince (2010)
    Prince
    2010
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    Nandana Sen and Randeep Hooda appear in Rang Rasiya.
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    Nandana Sen and John Makinson have been married since 2013.
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    Reemma Sen
    Reemma Sen
    Amartya Sen is Nandana Sen's father.
    Amartya Sen
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    Konkona Sen Sharma

Nandana Sen

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Nandana Sen
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at the Tagore Literature Awards.
Born19 August 1967 (age 48)
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
(now Kolkata)
ResidenceIndia, USA
OccupationActor, activist, writer
Years active1997-present (Latest release - Rang Rasiya, 2014)
OrganizationCurrent Ambassadorship in Operation Smile, UNICEF, RAHI
Spouse(s)John Makinson
Parent(s)Amartya Sen
Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Nandana Sen is an international actress, screenwriter, children's author and child-rights activist.

Early life[edit]

Sen 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. Nandana Sen's first piece of writing was published when she was a child in the magazine Sandesh, selected by Satyajit Ray.[1] She spent her growing years in various cities across Europe, India and America.

Education[edit]

Nandana Sen studied literature at Harvard University, where she was awarded the Detur Prize in her first year for topping her class,[2] and thereafter every year she also won both the John Harvard Scholarship and the Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Award for Academic Achievement of the Highest Distinction. As a Junior, she was elected early into the academic honor society Phi Beta Kappa. Subsequently, Sen studied Film Producing at the Peter Stark Producing Program at the USC Film School. She wrote and directed various short films, including her thesis film “Arranged Marriage” which was shown at multiple film festivals. As an actor, Nandana trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, New York, as well as the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London.

Professional life[edit]

Child Rights[edit]

Along with acting in theatre and films internationally, Nandana also promotes the cause of child protection. Nandana is Smile Ambassador for the global children’s NGO Operation Smile,[3] UNICEF India's National Celebrity for Child Protection and against Gender Based Violence,[4] and Cause Ambassador for RAHI (India's first organization to break the silence about child sexual abuse).[5] She collaborates with the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) as a Child Rights Expert and Juror for Public Hearings.[6] Nandana has been actively fighting to stop the crisis of child trafficking in India,[7][8] both with organizations such as the NCPCR and the Terre des hommes foundation[8][9] as well as addressing this topic in cinema.[10] She has been invited to speak on the cause of child protection in international conferences, including the Global Call to Action Summit for Child Survival and Development organized by USAID [7][11][11] and the International Comprehensive Cleft Care Conference of 2013.[12] Whenever possible, Nandana Sen has combined her commitment to child rights with her acting work,[13] including originating the role of the traumatized protagonist of the play “30 Days in September” (Prithvi Theatre) and the film “Chuppee/ The Silence” on Child Abuse (UNIFEM).[7][14][15][16]

Cinema[edit]

Sen has starred in over 20 feature films from multiple countries and in various languages (see Filmography). Her portrayal of Sugandha in her latest release Rang Rasiya (2014) has been hailed by critics as "pitch-perfect,"[17] "superb,"[18] "divine, elegant, and enticing,"[19] "innocent and vulnerable,"[20] "fearless, uninhibited,"[21] "radiant in every frame",[22] “poignant, lustrous”,[23] “stunning”[24] and "as refined as it is bold".[25] Sen’s pathbreaking performance [21][26] as artist Ravi Varma’s muse in this historical romance on the religious censorship of art), subsequently won her the prestigious Kalakar Award for Best Actress in 2015: in her acceptance speech, Nandana went on record saying that the award honours “the greater cause of free speech and expression, now under enormous threat everywhere, as shown by the horrifying Charlie Hebdo killings in Paris. The need to protect our creative freedom – whether we are actors or journalists, film-makers or novelists – is more urgent now than ever.” [27]
However, controversial acting choices,[13][26][28][29] Best Actress Awards,[26][30][31][better source needed][32] and critical acclaim [33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40] are not unique in Nandana Sen’s unconventional career.[26] 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 (Gudia)[41] as one of the targets of a middle-age man's sexual obsession, which premiered at the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival.
Her first vehicle in Bollywood was the Rani Mukherjee and Amitabh Bachchan starrer Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Black (2005) in which she played the role of Rani’s 17-year-old younger sister. Sen gave a highly proclaimed performance in the role and the film was applauded by both audience and critics,[42][43][44] earning her a nomination for Breakthrough Performance of the Year. Time Magazine (Europe) selected the film as one of the 10 Best Movies of the Year 2005 from across the globe.[45]
After teaming up on a succession of projects with Indian directors including Ram Gopal Varma and Ketan Mehta, Sen signed for one of the principal roles in the jarring, terrorist-themed American drama The War Within (2005) which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival[46] and, in the process, both made a name for herself[47] and began to cultivate a reputation for being drawn to offbeat, challenging, and demanding roles, often with a social or political theme.[10]
In the anti-war film Tango Charlie, Sen played the female lead opposite Ajay Devgan (also starring Sanjay Dutt and Bobby Deol) and with Anil Kapoor in My Wife's Murder. Both of these movies did well with critics.[48] Nandana followed this by signing lead roles opposite Salman Khan in the bilingual Hollywood-Bollywood film Marigold,[49] and Vivek Oberoi in Prince, at the same time playing the protagonist in unconventional but acclaimed films such as Strangers[50] and The Forest.
The British television series Sharpe increased her notability. The episode ‘Sharpe’s Peril’ featured Sen in a pivotal role.[51] 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. In 2010, Nandana starred in the Bengali super-hit Autograph,[52] for which she was awarded the TeleCine Award for Best Actress and the Reliance BIG Bangla Rising Star Award.
In theatre as in film, Sen has often played an artist’s muse and has been critically appreciated each time, including the off-Broadway production "Modigliani,"[33] the Bengali blockbuster "Autograph,"[34] and her latest release, "Rang Rasiya".[17] A favorite cover-girl of leading magazines for women as well as men, such as Femina,[53] Savvy,[13] FHM,[54] Man’s World[55] and Maxim,[56] Sen is known as much for her performances as for being comfortable with her sexuality and for speaking her mind:[26] “My body is as much a part of my humanity as my brain, my morals, and my heart, and I will never be ashamed of expressing it with the dignity and self-respect it deserves."[57]

Writing[edit]

Sen, whose professional choices have included a tenure as a literary editor at Houghton Mifflin Company, is also a screenwriter,[58] a maker of short films,[59] and a published writer in multiple genres, including poetry,[60][61] narrative non-fiction,[62][63][64] and Op Eds.[65][66][67][68] Her first original screenplay to be made into a film was Forever, funded by Telefilm Canada.[69] She was commissioned by Divani Films to adapt R.K. Narayan’s novel Waiting For the Mahatma into a film script, and by Big Bang Company to write an original script focusing on a father-daughter relationship. Sen is collaborating on a script about the history of the kiss in Indian cinema, with Italian filmmaker Franco La Cecla.[70] Sen frequently contributes articles to newspapers and journals, and has also translated a book of poems by her mother Nabaneeta Dev Sen, titled Make Up Your Mind (iUniverse, 2013). Represented by Sophie Hicks Agency,[71] Sen's first children’s book in verse, called Kiss This Kangaroo![2] will be published by Otter-Barry Books, followed by "Mambi and the Forest Fire"[32] and “Love Book” in 2016.[29] Sen is also writing a book on three generations of rule-defying Bengali women, tentatively titled “Shamlessly Female”,[1] which grew from an essay she published with the same title.[29]

Personal life[edit]

Nandana Sen tied the knot in the month of June 2013, she is married to John Makinson, Chairman of Penguin Random House.[72]
She also dated an Indian film producer, Madhu Mantena, for few years.[citation needed]

Filmography[edit]

Year of ReleaseFilmCountryRoleLanguageNotes
1997The Doll / GudiaIndiaRosemary Braganza / UrvashiHindicredited as Nandana Dev Sen
1999BranchieItalyItalian
ForeverCanadaNadiaEnglishShort feature
2000Seducing MaaryaCanadaMaaryaEnglish
2002Bokshu, The MythUS/IndiaEnglish
2004The Miracle: A Silent Love StoryIndia
2005The War WithinUSADuri ChoudhuryEnglish
My Wife's MurderIndiaReena WadhwaHindi
Tango CharlieIndiaShyamoliHindi
BlackIndiaSara McNallyHindi
2006The Silence / ChuppeeIndiaShort feature
2007The World UnseenUKRehmatEnglish
StrangersUK/ IndiaPreetiEnglish / Hindi
MarigoldUSAJaanviEnglish / Hindi
2008Sharpe's PerilUKMaharani PadminiEnglishbbTV Movie
2009Kaler RakhalIndiaBengali
Perfect MismatchUSANehaEnglish
2010AutographIndiaSrinanditaBengali
PrinceIndiaSerenaHindi
Jhootha hi sahiIndiaSuhana MalikHindi
2012The ForestIndiaRadhaEnglish / Hindi
2014Rang RasiyaIndiaSugandhaHindi
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        2. Nandana Sen
          Actress
        3. Nandana Sen is an international actress, screenwriter, children's author and child-rights activist. Wikipedia
        5. Born: August 19, 1967 (age 48), Kolkata
        6. Spouse: John Makinson (m. 2013)
        7. Parents: Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Amartya Sen
        8. Siblings: Antara Dev Sen, Indrani Sen, Kabir Sen
        9. Grandparents: Amita Sen, Ashutosh Sen
        10. Movies
          View 10+ more
          Rang Rasiya (2008)
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          2008
          Tango Charlie (2005)
          Tango Charlie
          2005
          The Forest (2009)
          The Forest
          2009
          Seducing Maarya (2000)
          Seducing Maarya
          2000
          Prince (2010)
          Prince
          2010
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