At first look, she hardly seemed to be the type to fit into the shoes of a Bollywood film heroine. But the times have been fortunate for the young Konkona Sen Sharma (December 3, 1979), daughter of Bengali film actress and director, Aparna Sen. She has been lucky with the kind of roles that she has etched in both Bengali and Hindi cinema which have catapulted her to success. She is the winner of two National awards, one for best actress (Mr & Mrs Iyer) and for best supporting actress for Omkara. Besides that, she also has two Filmfare awards in her kitty best supporting actress (for Omkara and Life In A… Metro).

Then, there are the awards that she has won from the Bengali Films Journalists Association for Ek Je Aachhe Kanya and 15 Park Avenue, besides winning the Mahindra Indo American Arts Council (MIAAC) Film Festival award in 2007 for best actress for Dosar.

Konkona made her debut as a child in a Bengali film called Indira. Her debut as an adult too was in a Bengali film. But she shot into prominence with her mother's English film, Mr and Mrs Iyer opposite Rahul Bose. She followed it up with another thumping performance in Madhur Bhandrakar's Page 3. By now, she was accepted and acknowledged as an actress of repute. She soon found herself very much a part of the mainstream when she was cast opposite actors like Saif Ali Khan in Vishal Bharadwaj's Omkara and Irrfan Khan in Anurag Basu's Life In A … Metro. Konkona continued to stun with her performances in films like her mother's 15 Park Avenue and the Bengali Dosar directed by Rituparno Ghosh. The other films that she has done include Bhandarkar's Traffic Signal and Yash Raj banner's Laaga Chunri Mein Daag and Madhuri Dixit's comeback film, Aaja Nachle. In both the Yash Raj movies, the actress, who was cast opposite Kunal Kapoor, managed to make her presence felt among the likes of Rani Mukherjee and Jaya Bachchan. The actress has begun this year with an English film, The President Is Coming. She has exciting films lined up and the first of them is debutant director Zoya Akhtar's Luck By Chance opposite Farhan Akhtar. Her other forthcoming films include, Rituparno's Sunglass, Neeraj Pathak's Right Yaa Wrong, Dharma Productions', Wake Up Sid opposite Ranbir Kapoor, Vinay Shukla's Mirch and her mother's Goinar Baksho.