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Nandana Sen. Per Wikipedia:

Born to Nobel Laureate and Bharat Ratna economist Amartya Sen and Padma Shri winner Nabanita Dev Sen, one of the most prominent authors in the contemporary Bengali literature. Nandana Sen's first piece of writing was published when she was a child in the magazine Sandesh, selected by Satyajit Ray.

Nandana Sen studied literature at Harvard University, where she was awarded the Detur Prize in her first year for topping her class, and thereafter every year she also won both the John Harvard Scholarship and the Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Award for Academic Achievement of the Highest Distinction.

She has acted in over 22 films over a span of 16 years (1997-present) in English, Hindi, Bengali and even Italian.

Along with acting in theatre and films internationally, Nandana also promotes the cause of child protection. Nandana is Smile Ambassador for the global children’s NGO Operation Smile,UNICEF India's National Celebrity for Child Protection and against Gender Based Violence, and Cause Ambassador for RAHI (India's first organization to break the silence about child sexual abuse). She collaborates with the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) as a Child Rights Expert and Juror for Public Hearings.

Nandana’s semi-nude scenes in the film created a bit of a controversy in 2008 and Nandana even received a lot of hate mail.

“Without knowing what the film was all about, or why I had done the scene, I received hate mail for the scenes. There were objections from different quarters also,” Nandana said at the time.

Sen, whose professional choices have included a tenure as a literary editor at Houghton Mifflin Company, is also a screenwriter, and a published writer in multiple genres, including poetry, narrative non-fiction, and Op Eds. Her first original screenplay to be made into a film was Forever. She was commissioned by Divani Films to adapt R.K. Narayan’s novel Waiting For the Mahatma into a film script, and by Big Bang Company to write an original script focusing on a father-daughter relationship.

Sen frequently contributes articles to newspapers and journals, and has also translated a book of poems by her mother Nabaneeta Dev Sen, titled Make Up Your Mind (iUniverse, 2013). Represented by Ed Victor Literary Agency, Nandana is writing a children’s book in verse, called Kiss This Kangaroo!

Sen has done varying degrees of characters in her 'short' career. Whenever possible, Nandana Sen has combined her commitment to child rights with her acting work.