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person_profile-Karuna Banerjee

Karuna Banerjee Died at age: 81

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Karuna Banerjee

Date of Birth:

Dec 25, 1919

Country of birth:

Bangladesh

Died:

Nov 13, 2001

Biography of

Karuna Banerjee

    Karuna Banerjee (Bengali: করুণা ব্যানার্জী) was a Bengali actress best known for her role in Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959) as the long suffering mother, Sarbajaya. She was nominated for Best Actress at the 1959 BAFTA Awards for her performance in Aparajito (1956), the second part of The Apu Trilogy. She appeared in a number of other films after that, including Ray's Devi (1960) and Kanchenjungha (1962).

    She graduated from the Jogamaya Devi College, an affiliated women's college of the University of Calcutta. Banerjee's acting career expanded over more than two decades in Bengali cinema and theatre. She is best known for her memorable performance as Sarbajaya, the mother in the first two parts of Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali (1955) and Aparajito (1956). Her performance in the latter earned her a Best Actress nomination at the 1959 BAFTA Awards. She acted in a few more films, including two more by Ray, two by Mrinal Sen, and one by Ritwik Ghatak that was never officially released.

Photos of

Karuna Banerjee

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Filmography of

Karuna Banerjee

Found 10 Movies in total

Apur Panchali

(Archive Footage) ( Actor )

... 2014

... 1972

... 1971

Kanchenjungha

Labanya Roy Chaudhuri ( Actor )

... 1962

Devi

Harasundari ( Actor )

... 1960

Headmaster

Labanya ( Actor )

... 1959

The Apu Trilogy

Sarbojaya Ray ( Actor )

... 1959

Aparajito

Sarbojaya Ray ( Actor )

... 1956

Pather Panchali

Sarbojaya Ray ( Actor )

... 1955

Shubha Bibaha

Meja-boudi ( Actor )

... -0001