The Most Famous
ACTORS from Bangladesh
This page contains a list of the greatest Bangladeshi Actors. The pantheon dataset contains 9,996 Actors, 3 of which were born in Bangladesh. This makes Bangladesh the birth place of the 83rd most number of Actors behind Syria and Belarus.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Bangladeshi Actors of all time. This list of famous Bangladeshi Actors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Suchitra Sen (1931 - 2014)
With an HPI of 45.84, Suchitra Sen is the most famous Bangladeshi Actor. Her biography has been translated into 30 different languages on wikipedia.
Suchitra Sen (Bengali pronunciation: [ʃuːtʃiːraː ʃeːn] ; born Roma Dasgupta (; 6 April 1931 – 17 January 2014), widely known as the Mahanayika (lit. 'Great actress'), was an Indian actress who worked in Bengali and Hindi cinema. The movies in which she was paired opposite Uttam Kumar became classics in the history of Bengali cinema. Sen was the first Indian actress to receive an award at an international film festival when, at the 1963 Moscow International Film Festival, she won the Silver Prize for Best Actress for Saat Pake Bandha. In 1972, she was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India. From 1979 on, she retreated from public life and shunned all forms of public contact; for this she is often compared to Greta Garbo. In 2005, she refused the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the highest cinematic award in India, to stay out of the public eye. In 2012, she was conferred the West Bengal Government's highest honour: Banga Bibhushan. Her first official release was Sukumar Dasgupta's Saat Number Kayedi (1953). She was catapulted to stardom after she was cast as Vishnupriya by Devaki Kumar Bose in his Bhagaban Shree Krishna Chaitanya (1953).
2. Utpal Dutt (1929 - 1993)
With an HPI of 44.58, Utpal Dutt is the 2nd most famous Bangladeshi Actor. His biography has been translated into 21 different languages.
Utpal Dutt (; 29 March 1929 – 19 August 1993) was an Indian actor, director, and writer-playwright. He was primarily an actor in Bengali theatre, where he became a pioneering figure in Modern Indian theatre, when he founded the "Little Theatre Group" in 1949. This group enacted many English, Shakespearean and Brecht plays, in a period now known as the "Epic theatre" period, before it immersed itself completely in highly political and radical theatre. His plays became an apt vehicle for the expression of his Marxist ideologies, visible in socio-political plays such as Kallol (1965), Manusher Adhikar, Louha Manob (1964), Tiner Toloar and Maha-Bidroha. He also acted in over 100 Bengali and Hindi films in a career spanning 40 years, and remains most known for his roles in films such as Mrinal Sen’s Bhuvan Shome (1969), Satyajit Ray’s Agantuk (1991), Gautam Ghose’s Padma Nadir Majhi (1992) and Hrishikesh Mukherjee's breezy Hindi comedies such as Gol Maal (1979) and Rang Birangi (1983). He also did the role of a sculptor, Sir Digindra Narayan, in the episode Seemant Heera of Byomkesh Bakshi (TV series) on Doordarshan in 1993, shortly before his death. He received National Film Award for Best Actor in 1970 and three Filmfare Best Comedian Awards. In 1990, the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance and Theatre, awarded him its highest award, the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship for lifetime contribution to theatre.
3. Geeta Dutt (1930 - 1972)
With an HPI of 41.56, Geeta Dutt is the 3rd most famous Bangladeshi Actor. Her biography has been translated into 22 different languages.
Geeta Dutt (born Geeta Ghosh Roy Chowdhuri; 23 November 1930 – 20 July 1972) was an Indian classical and playback singer. She found particular prominence as a playback singer in Hindi cinema and Bengali cinema and is considered as one of the best playback singers of all time in Hindi films. She also sang many modern Bengali songs in the non-film genre.
Pantheon has 3 people classified as actors born between 1929 and 1931. Of these 3, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased actors include Suchitra Sen, Utpal Dutt, and Geeta Dutt.
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