Ananya Khare is an Indian television and film actress who is best known for her appearances in
Bollywood
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (fo ...
films like ''Devdas'' and ''Chandni Bar''. She won the
National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress
The National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress is an honour presented annually at India's National Film Awards ceremony by the Directorate of Film Festivals (DFF), an organisation set up by the Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcast ...
for her performance in the movie Chandni Bar.
Personal life
Khare took a break and shifted to the US in 2005 after she met her husband, David. She worked as an English teacher in a school before the couple decided to shift base back to
Mumbai
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' fin ...
after 10 years.
Career
She first made her mark on television in serials including 1987's ''Nirmala'' for almost two decades before her big-screen success. She was awarded an Indian National Award for best-supporting actress for her role in ''Chandni Bar'' and subsequently nominated for her role in ''Devdas''. She has been awarded for her roles on stage, television, and on the big screen.
More recently, Khare has gained popularity by being back on
television
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...
and mostly being cast in negative roles on popular soap operas. In 2020, Ananya played the character Benazir Abdullah in the ALTBalaji series Bekaboo.
Filmography
Films
Television
Web series
References
External links
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Indian television actresses
Indian film actresses
Living people
People from Ratlam
1968 births
Actresses from Madhya Pradesh
Best Supporting Actress National Film Award winners
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