Real Name: Sharmila Tagore

Genres: actress

Birthday: 8 December, 1944

Birthcity: British India, (now in Andhra Pradesh, India)

Created: 03.06.2014

Height: 1.57 m

Spouse: Mansoor Ali Khan (1969–2011, his death)

First film: Apur Sansar (The World of Apu)

Last movie:

Sharmila Tagore was born in a hindu Bengali family in Hyderabad State to Gitindranath Tagore who was then deputy general manager of the East India Company owner of Elgin Mills. Her father was the son of Kanakendranath Tagore, who was the son of noted painter Gaganendranath Tagore and a relative of another painter Abanindranath Tagore, and more distantly, the poet and Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore. Her mother, Ira Baruah, was of Assamese descent. In regards to her Assamese roots, she stated—“Half of me is from Assam since my mother was an Assamese. Ira Barua, my mother, was the daughter of J. Barua, founder principal of Earl Law College in Guwahati.” Tagore attended St. John's Diocesan Girls' Higher Secondary School and Loreto Convent, Asansol.