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Leela Chitnis

1909 - 2003

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Leela Chitnis (née Nagarkar; 9 September 1909 – 14 July 2003) was an Indian actress in the Indian film industry, active from the 1930s to the 1980s. In her early years she starred as a romantic lead, but she is best remembered for her later roles playing a virtuous and upright mother to leading stars. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2024). Leela Chitnis is the 10,397th most popular actor (down from 9,795th in 2024), the 1,185th most popular biography from India (down from 1,097th in 2019) and the 272nd most popular Indian Actor.

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Among actors, Leela Chitnis ranks 10,397 out of 13,578. Before her are Andrew Airlie, Fabio Lanzoni, Choo Ja-hyun, Teresa Graves, Valorie Curry, and Jessica Barth. After her are Nushrat Bharucha, Brett Dalton, Dean O'Gorman, Allen Leech, Natalia Verbeke, and Carmen Villalobos.

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Among people born in 1909, Leela Chitnis ranks 420. Before her are Madge Evans, Sándor Schwartz, Marion Martin, Miguel White, Irene Hervey, and Jeffrey Lynn. After her are Eric Linden, Hugh Beaumont, Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, June Clyde, and Yelena Kuzmina. Among people deceased in 2003, Leela Chitnis ranks 378. Before her are Philip Slone, Adam Faith, José María Jiménez, Johnny Boyd, Slim Dusty, and Shawn Lane. After her are Nell Carter, Chris Brasher, Penny Singleton, Lauri Aus, Samson Kitur, and Jaclyn Linetsky.

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In India

Among people born in India, Leela Chitnis ranks 1,185 out of 1,861. Before her are Pawan Kumar Chamling (1950), Pallonji Mistry (1929), Parkash Singh Badal (1927), Indrani Rahman (1930), Ravichandran Ashwin (1986), and Ameesha Patel (1975). After her are Nushrat Bharucha (1985), Padma Lakshmi (1970), Parmanand Jha (1944), Seema Rao (1970), Darshan Ranganathan (1941), and Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy (1972).

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Among ACTORS In India

Among actors born in India, Leela Chitnis ranks 272. Before her are Aarti Chabria (1982), Nalini Jaywant (1926), Raveena Tandon (1974), Mandakini (1963), Richa Chadda (1986), and Ameesha Patel (1975). After her are Nushrat Bharucha (1985), Poonam Dhillon (1962), Durga Khote (1905), Vijay Deverakonda (1989), Farooq Sheikh (1948), and Sushma Seth (1936).

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