
Moonmoon Sen is one of the most gorgeous and appealing actresses that have ever worked in the Hindi cinema industry. She was born on 28 March 1958 and is the daughter of the legendary Bengali actress
Suchitra Sen. She has two daughters
Raima Sen and
Riya Sen who are also renowned actresses in their own rights. Her father Mr. Dibanath Sen was the son of one of the wealthiest businessmen of Calcutta. Moonmoon Sen was educated from Darjeeling and at
Loreto College in
Kolkata and graduated from Somerville College, University of Oxford. She later did her masters in Comparative Literature from
Jadavpur University.
Moonmoon Sen`s Film Career
Moonmoon Sen started her career in films and televisions after she got married and became a mother. She has appeared in more than 60 films and over 40 television serials. She made her debut with the film "Andar Bahar" in 1984. Her role in the movie became quite a controversy amongst the audiences and film critics. She has appeared in many hit Bengali movies, which further helped her in getting roles in Hindi films as well. She was moderately successful in Hindi film industry, however, was more successful in the Bengali industry. After the movie "Zakhmi Dil" that released in the year 1994 she did not appear in films, however in 2003 she starred in the thriller "Kucch To Hai" which failed at the box-office.
Moonmoon Sen has also acted in a number of films in other regional languages like Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada as well as Marathi movies. Her performance in the Telugu film "Sirivennela" is considered as one of her best performances in her acting career that she was critically acclaimed and her work was extremely appreciated. She has acted in a Telugu movie named Sirivennela and in a Tamil film called 12B. She has also acted in some television serials as well as a couple of Bengali tele-films. Some of her notable movies include `Musafir`, `Woh Phir Aayegi`, `Tere Bina Kya Jeena`, `Jeevan Ek Sangharsh`, `
Bow Barracks Forever` and so on.
Awards and Honours of Moonmoon Sen
Sen has been bestowed with awards such as the Nandi State Award, the Kalakendra Screen Award and the Bharat Nirman Award.
Moonmoon Sen is married to Bharat Dev Sharma in 1978.Her husband belonged to Tripura`s royal family. Sen`s mother in law was the Princess of
Cooch Behar and her older sister Gayatri Devi is the Maharani of
Jaipur. Dinanath Seth, her great grandfather was the Diwan of the Maharaja of
Tripura. Sen is said to have studies art under
Jamini Roy. Before her acting career, Sen taught at Ballygunge Girls` School for a year and then taught graphics at Chitrabani, a school teaching film techniques located in Kolkata.
(Last Updated on : 3/02/2011)