Swatilekha Sengupta

Swatilekha Sengupta

Personal Info

  • Known for

    Acting

  • Gender

    Female

  • Birthday

    1950-05-22

  • Day of Death

    2021-06-16 (71 years old)

  • Place of Birth

    Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

Biography

Swatilekha Sengupta (née Chatterjee; 22 May 1950 – 16 June 2021) was a Bengali actress. She had received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for her contribution to Indian theatre as an actor.

Swatilekha started her career in theater in Allahabad in the early 1970s, acting in productions under the direction of A.C. Banerjee. She also received guidance from B.V. Karanth, Tapas Sen, and Khaled Chowdhury. Then she moved to Kolkata and joined the theater group Nandikar in 1978. In Nandikar she worked under the direction of Rudraprasad Sengupta, whom she went on to marry.

Acting