Karuna Banerjee
Acting
December 25, 1919
Died November 13, 2001 (81 years old)
Khulna, Bangladesh
11
Acting Credits
Biography
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 ...
Known For
Filmography
Apur Panchali
2014
as (Archive Footage)
6
Calcutta 71
1972
8.6
Interview
1971
7.1
The Creative Person: Satyajit Ray
1967
as Self
Kanchenjungha
1962
as Labanya Roy Chaudhuri
7.6
Devi
1960
as Harasundari
7.5
Shubha Bibaha
1959
as Meja-boudi
7
Headmaster
1959
as Labanya
9
Manmoyee Girls' School
1958
7
Aparajito
1956
as Sarbajaya Roy
7.8
Pather Panchali
1955
as Sarbajaya Roy
7.8