Koel Purie
Biography
Koel Purie Rinchet is an Indian actress, producer, and TV presenter.
She made her debut with Rahul Bose's directorial venture Everybody Says I'm Fine! in 2001 and later featured in Road to Ladakh, starring with Irrfan Khan. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art London.
Since then she has worked on 20 films in India, the United Kingdom, and Canada. She played Desdemona at the Leicester Haymarket. She has also acted in the theatre production of A Taste for Mangoes (an adaptation of Willian Dalrymple's White Mughals).
She has written for publications such as Cosmopolitan, DNA, Harper's Bazaar, and India Today. While living in Tokyo, Purie was appointed the tourism mascot by the Japanese government and shot several videos to promote tourism in Japan.
Purie now lives in Paris and has started her own production company to make film, digital, and video content for various platforms.
Purie hosted a talk show, On The Couch With Koel, on the Indian news channel Headlines Today. She has produced and hosted various TV shows from Great Escape for Star Plus to Aaj Ki Naari for DD Metro.
Koel Purie is the daughter of media tycoon Aroon Purie.
