Karuna Banerjee
Birthday
1919/12/25
Day of death
2001/11/13 (81 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Khulna, Bangladesh
Also know as
Karuna Banerji, Karuna Bandopadhyay, Karuna Bandyopadhyay, Kanu Bannerjee
Biography
Karuna Banerjee (Bengali: করুণা ব্যানার্জী) was a Bengali actress best known for her role in Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959) as the long suffering mother, Sarbajaya. She was nominated for Best Actress at the 1959 BAFTA Awards for her performance in Aparajito (1956), the second part of The Apu Trilogy. She appeared in a number of other films after that, including Ray's Devi (1960) and Kanchenjungha (1962). She graduated from the Jogamaya Devi College, an affiliated women's college of ...Read more
Acting
(1956) Aparajito
as Sarbojaya Ray
The Apu Trilogy
as Sarbojaya Ray
(1958) Manmoyee Girls' School
as ---
(1962) Kanchenjungha
as Labanya Roy Chaudhuri
(1972) Calcutta 71
as ---
(1960) Devi
as Harasundari
(1971) Interview
as ---
(1955) Pather Panchali
as Sarbojaya Ray
Shubha Bibaha
as Meja-boudi
(1967) The Creative Person: Satyajit Ray
as Self
(1959) Headmaster
as Labanya
(2014) Apur Panchali
as (Archive Footage)
Kanchenjunga
as Labanya Roy