Sheeba Chaddha

Sheeba Chaddha (born 24 April 1972) is an Indian film, stage and television actress.

Early life and education Chaddha was born in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, and was brought up in Delhi's New Rajinder Nagar neighbourhood in a business family. In an interview, she shared that became involved in acting through inter-school theatre competitions. After completing Class 12, she was inspired to pursue theatre after watching Sheila Bhatia's musical Main Ladli Maina Teri at Delhi's Shriram Theatre. Soon, she developed interest in theatre and started taking theatre workshops.

She majored in English literature from Hans Raj College (University of Delhi). She was a classmate with Anurag Kashyap. She appeared in the 2012 film Talaash: The Answer Lies Within as Nirmala, a sex worker. The year 2015 saw her triumph with a quirky turn as Nain Tara Tiwary (Buaji) in Sharat Katariya's Dum Laga Ke Haisha.

Her early appearance on television, was on Love Marriage (2002), thereafter, she made a comeback in television in 2007 playing a business tycoon in Kasturi.

She has also acted in stage plays, Rajat Kapoor's C for Clown (2007), Atul Kumar's The Blue Mug (2010) with Kapoor, Munish Bhardwaj, and Vinay Pathak, Konkona Sen Sharma and Ranvir Shorey, played Desdimona in Roysten Abel's Othello in Black& White and a 2012 production of Henrik Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler, where she played the lead role of Hedda. She is also involved in running a theatre group, "The Company Theatre" in Mumbai.

Filmography

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Films

Television

Web series

Awards