Madhur Jaffrey

Madhur Jaffrey is an Indian-born actress, cookbook author and television presenter who began acting on All India Radio in Delhi before training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She helped bring the filmmakers James Ivory and Ismail Merchant together and appeared in several of their films, winning the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival for Shakespeare Wallah. Her later screen work includes Heat and Dust (1983), Vanya on 42nd Street (1994), Flawless (1999), Chutney Popcorn (2001), Prime (2005), Today's Special (2009) and A Late Quartet (2012), and she starred in and co-directed Cotton Mary. Alongside acting she wrote cookbooks, beginning with An Invitation to Indian Cooking, and presented television cooking series such as Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cookery. She was named a CBE in 2004 and received the Padma Bhushan in 2022.