Shweta Basu Prasad

Biography

Shweta Basu Prasad (born 11 January 1991) is an Indian actress. She is known for her works in television, Hindi cinema, Telugu cinema, and Tamil cinema. She won the National Film Award for Best Child Artist for her role in Makdee (2002).

After Iqbal (2005), she transitioned to adult roles and found success with Kotha Bangaru Lokam (2008), The Tashkent Files (2019), and OTT platform films and web series such as Serious Men (2020), Criminal Justice (Season 3, 2022), India Lockdown (2022), and Jubilee (2023).

Shweta has also worked in Telugu, Tamil, and Bengali language films. She made a documentary on Indian classical music and has produced and written for short films. She made her directorial debut with the short film Retake in 2023.

Shweta made her debut in Telugu cinema in 2008, with the film Kotha Bangaru Lokam. She has also done movies in Tamil and Bengali.

She played the leading role of Nandni, wife of Chandragupta Maurya, in the television series Chandra Nandni (2016-2017). She said that this marked her comeback to television.

Her next Hindi film outing was Badrinath Ki Dulhania (2017) by Dharma Productions.