Nandana Sen

Biography

Nandana Dev Sen is an Indian-born American actress and child-rights activist, born in New Delhi to Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen and Padma Shri awardee Nabanita Dev Sen. Her breakthrough role came in the 2005 film Black, where she played Rani's younger sister alongside Amitabh Bachchan and Rani Mukherjee. She has since been drawn to challenging roles with social or political themes, as seen in her work on The War Within (2005).