Tillotama Shome
Tillotama Shome wiki, age, height, caste, religion, husband, movies, family, parents, siblings, education & more
| Biography | |
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| Name | Tillotama Shome (तिल्लोतामा शोम) |
| Full Name | Tillotama Shome Ross |
| Profession | Indian actress |
| Years Active | 2001-Present |
| Date of Birth | June 25, 1978 |
| Age (In 2022) | 44 Years |
| Birth Place | Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Hometown | Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Religion | Hinduism |
| Caste | Kayastha |
| Mother Tongue | Bengali |
| Zodiac | Cancer |
| Height | in centimeters- 160 cm in meters- 1.60 m in Feet Inches- 5ft 3in |
| Eye Color | Brown |
| Hair Color | Black |
| Family and Marriage Details | |
| Marital Status | Married |
| Husband/Spouse | Kunal Ross (Jaya Bachchan's Nephew) |
| Marriage Date | March 29, 2015 |
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| Parents | |
| Father | Anupam Kumar Shome 1 |
| Mother | Baishakhi Shome |
| Sibling(s) | |
| Brother(s) | Gaurav Shome |
| Other Relative(s) | |
| Father-in-law | Howard Ross |
| Mother-in-law | Neeta Ross |
| Education Details | |
| School | Not Known |
| College | New York University, New York Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi |
| Educational Qualification | Masters in English Literature Masters in Educational Theatre |
| Filmography | |
| Debut Movie | Monsoon Wedding (2001) |
| Movies | Deep 6 (Bengali, 2021) Angrezi Medium (2020) Dheet Patangey (2020) Chintu Ka Birthday (2019) Raahgir: The Wayfarers (2019) Is Love Enough? Sir (2018) Manto (2018) Kadvi Hawa (2017) The Song of Scorpions (2017) A Death in the Gunj (2017) Hindi Medium (2017) Union Leader (2017) Budhia Singh: Born to Run (2016) The Letters (English, 2015) Ludo (Bengali, 2015) Monsoon Baby (German, 2014) Children of War (2014) Sold (English, 2014) Qissa: The Tale of a Lonely Ghost (Punjabi, 2013) Aatma (2013) Tasher Desh (Bengali, 2012) Shanghai (2012) Turning 30 (2011) Gangor (English-Bengali, 2010) The Waiting City (English, 2009) Little Box of Sweets (English, 2006) Shadows of Time (Bengali, 2004) Monsoon Wedding (2001) |
| TV Series | Love Shots (2016) Futurestates (English, 2010) |
| Web Series | Delhi Crime Season 2 (2022) Mentalhood (2020) |
| Short Movies | Nayantara's Necklace (2015) Sahasi Chori (Nepali, 2013) Boond (2009) Clap Clap (English, 2009) Zamir and Preeti: A Love Story (English, 2009) Long After (English, 2006) Butterfly (English, 2003) |
| Award(s)/Title(s) | |
| Best Actor for 'Raahgir: The Wayfarers' at at UK Asian Film Festival, 2021 Best Actress (Critics) for 'Is Love Enough? Sir' at Filmfare Awards, 2018 | |
| twitter.com/TillotamaShome/ (16k followers) | |
| facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063489979403 | |
| instagram.com/tillotamashome/ (106k followers) | |
| [email protected] | |
| Other Details | |
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| Tillotama Shome is an Indian actress known for Monsoon Wedding (2001), A Death in the Gunj (2017), Sir (2018) & Delhi Crime Season 2 (2022). | |
| Tillotama was born on June 25, 1978 in a bengali kayastha family to Anupam Kumar Shome & Baishakhi Shome in Kolkata, West Bengal. She has a younger brother named Gaurav Shome. She spent her childhood in different indian cities as her father was in the Indian Air Force. | |
| She did her Bachelors & Masters in English Literature from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi and during this time joined Arvind Gaur's Asmita theatre group. | |
| She went to New York City to did her Masters in Educational Theatre from The New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. She worked as a teaching artist at Creative Arts, an organization in New York that conveys social awareness message through theatre and taught theatre to prisoners in the US. 2 | |
| She made her acting debut in Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding (2001). The film received positive reviews from critics and it earned over $30 million against its budget of $1.2 million and won the Golden Lion award at the Venice International Film Festival and also received a Golden Globe Award nomination. | |
| Tillotama met Kunal Ross, nephew of Jaya Bachchan at her cousin's house. At that time she didn't knew that Kunal is related to the Bachchans and when she asked about this to Kunal, he said that he didn't think it was important to mention it. Earlier Kunal was working for an advertising firm in Dubai but now he has an online coffee business, TheIndianBean.com. 3 | |
Tillotama Shome got married to Kunal Ross on March 29, 2015. The entire Bachchan family including Amitabh, Jaya, Abhishek, Aishwarya, Shweta, Aaradhya were all a part of the huge wedding ceremony in Goa. | |
| She was nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in A Death in the Gunj (2017) and won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress (Critics) for her acting in Is Love Enough? Sir (2018). | |
On 14 September 2021, Tillotama took to Twitter to slam a troll who called her a 'flop actress who looks likes a maid' but added a quirky humour to the post as well by saying "Now how is that even mildly insulting, given my situation!?" as she had played the role of a maid in the movie and found it applause-worthy that people could not differentiate she is not an actual maid but an actress who is playing the role of a maid.
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Her mother, Baishakhi Shome is battling cancer. Tillotama Shome took to Twitter on 24 February 2022 to react on the ongoing Russia-Ukraine crisis. She tweeted, "I worry incessantly for my mother who is battling cancer in the imidst of covid. But when I think of the families and cancer patients in the middle of war, my brain just ceases to comprehend." "Nothing is uglier than war. Mothers don't give life for war," she added.
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| She won the Best Actor Award at the UK Asian Film Festival, 2021 for her film Raahgir: The Wayfarers (2019) directed by Goutam Ghose. | |
| Tillotama Shome played the role of a serial killer in the Season 2 of crime drama series Delhi Crime (2022) released on Netflix. She received a lot of praises for her acting in the series. | |
She was featured on the cover of the Filmfare magazine in April 2021 along with actresses Alaya F & Taapsee Pannu. | |
Actress Kalki Koechlin is her best-friend. | |
References
- https://www.instagram.com/p/B0tAXJTBGWI/[↩]
- https://www.outlookindia.com/art-entertainment/tillotama-shome-opens-up-about-teaching-theatre-to-prisoners-in-us-news-221263[↩]
- https://www.rediff.com/movies/special/at-home-with-tillotama-shome/20180606.htm[↩]
