Tillotama Shome

Tillotama Shome is an Indian actress known for independent films. Born in Kolkata and raised across India, she attended Lady Shri Ram College in Delhi and acted with Arvind Gaur's Asmita theater group before moving to New York for a graduate degree in educational theater. Her screen debut came as Alice in Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding (2001). She also played a nun in Claire McCarthy's Australian film The Waiting City (2009) and a social worker in Italo Spinelli's Gangor, based on a Mahashweta Devi novel. Her lead role as a housemaid in Sir earned her the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress. For Qissa, where she played a girl raised as a boy, she shared the best actress prize in the New Horizons Competition at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival. She has also been seen in A Death in the Gunj, Lust Stories 2, and the series Delhi Crime, The Night Manager and Paatal Lok.