List of Indian film actresses
This is an alphabetical list of notable female Indian film actresses.
A
- Aamna Shariff
- Aarathi (Kannada)
- Aarti Chhabria (Telugu, Kannada, Hindi)
- Aamani (Telugu, Tamil)
- Abhinaya (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada)
- Adah Sharma
- Aditi Govitrikar
- Additi Gupta (tv serial)
- Aindrita Ray (Kannada)
- Aishwarya (Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu)
- Aishwarya Rai (now Aishwarya Rai Bachchan) (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, English)
- Amala (Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi)
- Amala Paul (Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam)
- Ambika (Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada)
- Ameeta (Hindi)
- Ameesha Patel (Hindi, Telugu)
- Amoolya (Kannada)
- Amrita Arora (Hindi)
- Amrita Prakash (Hindi, Malayalam)
- Amrita Rao (Hindi, Telugu)
- Amrita Singh
- Amy Jackson (Tamil, Hindi)
- Ananya (Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu)
- Andrea Jeremiah (Tamil, Telugu)
- Anita Hassanandani (Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil)
- Anita Guha
- Anita Raj
- Anjala Zhaveri (Telugu)
- Anjali (Tamil)
- Anjali Devi (Telugu)
- Anjana Bhowmick (Hindi, Bengali)
- Anjana Sukhani (Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil)
- Anju Mahendru
- Antara Mali (Hindi)
- Anu Agarwal (Hindi)
- Anu Prabhakar (Kannada, Tamil)
- Anupama Verma
- Anuradha Mehta (Telugu, Kannada)
- Anusha Dandekar (Hindi)
- Anushka Sharma (Hindi)
- Anushka Shetty (Telugu,Tamil)
- Anuya Bhagvath (Malayalam, Tamil)
- Aparajita Mohanty (Oriya)
- Aparnaa Bajpai (Tamil)
- Aparna Sen (Bengali, Hindi)
- Archana Buddha Mil Gaya fame
- Archana Jose Kavi (Malayalam, Tamil)
- Archana Puran Singh (Hindi)
- Archana (Tamil)
- Archita Sahu (Oriya)
- Arthi Agarwal (Telugu)
- Aruna Irani (Gujarati, Hindi)
- Aruna Shields (Hindi)
- Arundathi Nag (Kannada)
- Asha Parekh (Hindi)
- Ash Rai (Hindi)
- Ashwini Bhave (Marathi, Hindi)
- Asin Thottumkal (Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi)
- Ashvini Bhave-Bopardikar (Marathi, Hindi)
- Ayesha Jhulka (Hindi)
- Ayesha Takia (Hindi, Telugu)
B
- Babita
- Banu (Tamil)
- Bárbara Mori (Hindi, English)
- Barsha Priyadarshini (Oriya)
- Bhagyashree Patwardhan (Hindi, Kannada)
- Bhairavi Goswami (Hindi)
- Bhama (Malayalam, Kannada)
- Bhanumathi (Telugu, Tamil)
- Bhanupriya (Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi)
- Bharathi Vishnuvardhan (Kannada)
- Bhavana (Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada)
- Bhavya (Kannada)
- Bhoomika Chawla (Telugu, Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, Malayalam)
- Bindiya Goswami
- Bindu (Hindi)
- Bindu Madhavi (Telugu,Tamil)
- Bipasha Basu (Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu)
C
- Carol Gracias
- Celina Jaitley (Hindi, Telugu)
- Charmy Kaur (Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada)
- Chaya Singh (Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil)
- Chhaya Devi (Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi)
- Chitrangada Singh
- Chitrashi Rawat
- Cukoo
D
- Daisy Bopanna (Kannada, Malayalam,Tamil,Telugu,Hindi)
- Daisy Irani (actress) (Hindi)
- Debasree Roy (Bengali, Hindi)
- Deepa Sahi (Hindi)
- Deepal Shaw
- Deepali (Kannada, Tamil)
- Deepika Chikhalia
- Deepika Padukone (Kannada, Hindi)
- Deepti Naval (Marathi, Hindi)
- Deepti Bhatnagar(Telugu, Tamil, Hindi)
- Delnaaz Paul
- Devayani (actress) (Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Bengali)
- Devika (Telugu)
- Devika Rani Roerich
- Dia Mirza (Hindi)
- Diana Hayden (Hindi)
- Dimple Kapadia (Hindi)
- Divya Bharati (Hindi, Telugu)
- Drashti Dhami (popular tv actress)
E
F
G
- Gajala (Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada)
- Gayatri Patel
- Gauhar Khan
- Gayatri Joshi
- Geetha (Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada)
- Geeta Bali
- Geeta Basra
- Geeta Dutt (Hindi)
- Geetu Mohandas (Malayalam, Tamil)
- Genelia D'Souza (Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi)
- Girija (Telugu)
- Gouthami (Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi)
- Gowri Pandit
- Gracy Singh (Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada)
- Gul Panag
- Gaury
H
I
J
- Jacqueline Fernandez (Hindi, Telugu)
- Jasmin (Hindi)
- Jayabharathi (Malayalam, Tamil)
- Jayachitra (Telugu, Tamil)
- J. Jayalalithaa (Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, English)
- Jaya Bachchan (Jaya Bhaduri) (Hindi, Bengali)
- Jayanthi (actress) (Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam)
- Jayapradha (Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, Malayalam, Bengali)
- Jayasudha (Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada)
- Jayamala (Kannada, Telugu, Tamil)
- Jayamalini
- Jennifer Kotwal (Kannada)
- Jennifer Winget (tv serial)
- Jharana Bajracharya
- Jiah Khan (Hindi)
- Juhi Chawla (Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi)
- Jyothika Saravanan (Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam)
- Jyothirmayi (Malayalam, Tamil)
K
- Kajal Aggarwal (Telugu, Tamil, Hindi)
- Kajal Kiran (Hindi)
- Kajol (Hindi, Tamil)
- Kalki Koechlin (Hindi)
- Kalpana (Kannada)
- Kalpana (Hindi)
- Kalpana (Malayalam actress) (Malayalam, Tamil)
- Kalpana Iyer (Hindi)
- Kalpana Kartik
- Kamini Kaushal (Tamil)
- Kamalinee Mukherjee (Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali)
- Kanaka (Tamil)
- Kanakam (Telugu)
- Kanchana (Kannada, Telugu, Tamil)
- Kangana Ranaut (Hindi, Tamil)
- Kanika Subramaniam (Tamil, Malayalm, Telugu, Kannada)
- Kareena Kapoor (Hindi)
- Karishma Kapoor (Hindi)
- Karthika (Tamil)
- Katrina Kaif (Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam)
- Kashmira Shah
- Kausalya (Tamil)
- Kavya Madhavan (Malayalam, Tamil)
- Khursheed
- Kimi Katkar
- Kim Sharma (Hindi, English)
- Kiran Rathod (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam)
- Kirron Kher
- Kirat Bhattal (Tamil)
- Kitu Gidwani
- Koel Mullick (Bengali)
- Koel Purie
- Koena Mitra (Hindi, Tamil)
- Komal (Hindi Ghoonghroo-1983)
- Krishna Kumari (Telugu)
- Kruttika Desai (Hindi)
- Kushboo (Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada)
- Konkona Sen Sharma (Bengali, Hindi)
- K. R. Vijaya (Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada)
- Kumari (Telugu)
- Kumkum
- Kuljeet Randhawa (Punjabi, Hindi)
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- Laila Mehdin (Tamil, Malayalam)
- Lalita Pawar (Hindi)
- Lalitha
- Lara Dutta (Tamil, Hindi, Punjabi)
- Lakshmi (Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi)
- Lakshmi Gopalaswamy (Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil)
- Lakshmi Manchu (Telugu)
- Lakshmi Rai (Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu)
- Laya (Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam)
- Leela Chitnis
- Leelavathi (Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Tulu)
- Lekha Washington (Tamil,Kannada)
- Lilette Dubey
- Lisa Ray (Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu)
M
- Madhavi (Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil)
- Madhoo (Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada)
- Madhubala (Hindi)
- Madhuri Dixit (Hindi)
- Madhuri itagi (kannada , tamil , telugu)
- Madhumitha (Tamil,Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam)
- Mahasweta Roy (Oriya)
- Mahi Gill (Hindi, Punjabi)
- Mahima Chaudhry (Hindi)
- Mala Sinha (Nepali, Bengali, Hindi)
- Malashri (Kannada, Telugu)
- Malavika (Tamil, Hindi, Telugu,Malayalam)
- Malaika Arora (now Malaika Arora Khan) (Hindi, Telugu)
- Mallika Kapoor (Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi)
- Mallika Sherawat (Hindi, Tamil, Chinese)
- Mamta Kulkarni (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada)
- Mamta Mohandas (Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada)
- Mandakini (Hindi)
- Mandira Bedi (Hindi, Tamil)
- Manisha Koirala (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Malayalam, Nepali)
- Manju Warrier (Malayalam)
- Manjula (Kannada)
- Manjula Vijayakumar (Telugu, Tamil)
- Manorama (Tamil)
- Mantra (Tamil)
- Manya
- Mayuri Kango
- Meena Kumari (Mahajabeen Bano) (Hindi)
- Meena Durairaj (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam)
- Meenakshi (Tamil)
- Meenakshi (Malayalam)
- Meenakshi Seshadri (Tamil, Telugu, Hindi)
- Meera (Hindi, urdu)
- Meera Chopra (Tamil, Telugu)
- Meera Jasmine (Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada)
- Meera Nandan (Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu)
- Meera Vasudevan (Malayalam, Tamil)
- Meghna Naidu (Telugu, Tamil)
- Meghna Raj (Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil)
- Merle Oberon
- Minissha Lamba
- Mita Vashisht
- Monalisa (Hindi)
- Mona Singh
- Monica Bedi (Hindi, Punjabi)
- Monisha Unni (Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada)
- Moon Moon Sen (Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi, Kannada)
- Moushmi Chatterji (Hindi, Bengali)
- Mumaith Khan (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu)
- Mumtaj (Tamil, Telugu)
- Mumtaz (Hindi)
- Mugdha Godse (Hindi)
N
- Nadira
- Nadiya Moidu (Malayalam, Tamil)
- Nagma (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Marathi)
- Nalini (Kannada,Tamil,Telugu, Malayalam)
- Nalini Jaywant (Hindi)
- Namrata Shirodkar (Marathi, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam)
- Namitha (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi)
- Nanda (Hindi)
- Nandana Sen
- Nandita Chandra
- Nandita Das (Hindi, Oriya, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, English, Rajastani)
- Nargis (Now Nargis Dutt) (Hindi)
- Natassha (Also called Anitha) (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada)
- Nauheed Cyrusi
- Navya Nair (Malayalam, Tamil)
- Nayantara (Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada)
- Neelam (Hindi)
- Neelam Verma (English, Hindi)
- Neelima Azeem (Hindi)
- Neena Gupta (Hindi)
- Neha Dhupia (Japanese, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil)
- Neha Jhulka (Hindi, Telugu)
- Neeru Bajwa (Punjabi,Hindi)
- Neetu Chandra
- Neetu Singh (Hindi)
- Niharika Singh
- Nikita Anand
- Nikita Thukral (Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam)
- Nila (Tamil)
- Nimmi (Hindi)
- Nirupa Roy
- Nirmalamma (Telugu)
- Nirosha (Telugu, Tamil, Kannada)
- Nisha Kothari
- Nishi (Tamil)
- Nithya Das (Malayalam)
- Nithya Menen (Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil)
- Noor Jehan (Urdu)
- Nutan (Hindi)
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- Padmapriya (Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada)
- Padma Khanna
- Padma Lakshmi
- Padmini Kolhapure (Hindi)
- Padmini Travancore Sisters (now Padmini Ramachandran) (Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Hindi)
- Pallavi Kulkarni
- Pallavi Subhash(Marathi,Hindi,Tamil]
- Panchi Bora
- Pandari Bai (Kannada, Tamil)
- Parminder Nagra
- Parul Chauhan (TV serial)
- Parvathy Jayaram (Malayalam)
- Parvati Melton
- Parvati Menon (Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada)
- Parveen Babi (Hindi)
- Patience Cooper
- Payal Rohatgi (Hindi)
- Payal Ghosh (Telugu)
- Perizaad Zorabian
- Pia Bajpai (Tamil, Telugu)
- Pooja Batra (Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam)
- Pooja Bedi (Hindi)
- Pooja Bhatt (Hindi)
- Pooja Gandhi (Kannada)
- Pooja Umashankar (Tamil)
- Pooja Gor (TV serial actress)
- Poonam Dhillon
- Prachi Desai (Hindi, Tamil)
- Preet Padukone (Hindi)
- Preetha Vijayakumar (Tamil, Telugu)
- Preeti Jhangiani (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu)
- Preity Zinta (Telugu, Hindi)
- Prema (Kannada, Telugu)
- Prema Narayan
- Priya Anand (Telugu, Tamil)
- Priya Gill (Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi)
- Priya Lal (Malayalam)
- Priya Rai (English)
- Priya Raman (Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu)
- Priya Rajvansh (Hindi)
- Priya Wal ( T V Serial Actress)
- Priya Mani (Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada)
- Priyanka Chopra (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu)
- Priyanka Bassi
- Priyanka Sharma (Hindi)
- Priyanka Trivedi (Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Hindi)
R
- Raakhee (Now Raakhi Gulzar) (Bengali, Hindi)
- Raadhika Sarathkumar (South Indian Actress) (Kannada, Tamil)
- Radha (Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil)
- Radhika Pandit (Kannada)
- Ragini Travancore Sisters (Hindi)
- Rajshree (Hindi)
- Raima Sen (Telugu, Bengali, Hindi, Tamil)
- Rakhi Sawant
- Rakshita (Kannada, Telugu)
- Rambha (Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Bengali, Bhojpuri)
- Rameshwari
- Ranjeeta Kaur (Hindi)
- Ranjitha (Tamil)
- Rani Mukerji (Hindi, Bengali, Tamil)
- Ramya (Kannada, Tamil, Telugu)
- Ramya Krishna (Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi)
- Rashmi Desai
- Ratan Rajput (TV Serial)
- Rati Agnihotri (Tamil, HIndi)
- Ratna Pathak Shah
- Raveena Tandon (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada)
- Reena Roy (Hindi, Punjabi)
- Reema Sen (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali)
- Rekha (Hindi, Tamil)
- Renuka Shahane (Hindi)
- Revathi Menon (Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi)
- Richa Palod (Hindi)
- Rimi Sen (Hindi, Bengali)
- Rinke Khanna
- Rituparna Sengupta (Hindi, Bengali)
- Riya Sen (Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, English, Malayalam)
- Rohini Hattangadi (Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam)
- Roja (Telugu, Tamil, Kannada)
- Roma (Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada)
- Roopa Ganguly (Bengali, Hindi)
- Roshni Chopra (TV serial)
- Ruby Parihar (Telugu, Kannada)
- Roma Manek
S
- Sagarika Ghatge
- Sadha (Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi)
- Sadhana (Hindi, Tamil)
- Sandhya (Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada)
- Sandhya Mridul
- Sakshi Shivanand (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada)
- Sakshi Talwar (TV serial)
- Sakshi Tanwar (TV serial and film actress)
- Saira Banu (Hindi)
- Salma Agha
- Saloni Aswani (Telugu, Kannada)
- Samantha Ruth Prabhu (Telugu, Kannada)
- Samiksha (Telugu, Tamil)
- Sameera Reddy (Hindi, Telugu, Bengali, Tamil)
- Samvrutha Sunil (Malayalam, Tamil)
- Sana Khan (Tami, Telugu, Hindi)
- Sangeeta Bijlani
- Sandali Sinha
- Sanjana Gandhi
- Santoshi (Tamil)
- Sara Khan (TV serial)
- Saranya Mohan (Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu)
- Sarika
- Saritha (Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam)
- Saroja Devi (Telugu, Kannada, Tamil)
- Savitri (Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada)
- Sayali Bhagat
- Shabana Azmi (Hindi)
- Shalini (Baby Shalini) (Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu)
- Shamili (Baby Shamili) (Telugu, Kannada, Tamil)
- Shahana Goswami
- Sharmila Mandre (Kannada)
- Sharmilee
- Shakeela (Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam)
- Shamita Shetty (Tamil, Telugu, Hindi)
- Sharmila Tagore (Hindi, Bengali)
- Shashikala (Tamil)
- Shazahn Padamsee (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu)
- Sherin (Tamil)
- Sherlyn Chopra (Mona Chopra)
- Shilpa Shetty (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada)
- Shilpa Shirodkar (Hindi)
- Shilpa Anand
- Shweta Tiwari (tv serial)
- Shweta Gulati(tv serial)
- Shobhana (Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada)
- Shobhna Samarth
- Shraddha Kapoor
- Shruthi K. Haasan (Tamil, Telugu ,Hindi)
- Shruti (Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam)
- Shriya Saran (Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, English)
- Shubha Poonja (Kannada)
- Shyama (Khurshid Akhtar) (Hindi)
- Simi Garewal
- Simone Singh
- Simple Kapadia
- Simple Kaur
- Simran (Now Simran Bagga) (Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam)
- Sindhu
- Sindhu Tolani (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada)
- Sindhu Menon (Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam)
- Silk Smitha (Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi)
- Smita Patil
- Smriti Irani (Smriti Malhotra)
- Sneha Ullal (Hindi, Telugu)
- Sneha (Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil)
- Soha Ali Khan (Hindi)
- Sonakshi Sinha (Hindi)
- Sonali Bendre (Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada)
- Sonal Chauhan
- Sonam (actress)
- Sonam Kapoor
- Sonali Kulkarni (Marathi, Hindi, Tamil)
- Sonia Agarwal (Tamil, Telugu)
- Sonia Sahni Buddha Mil Gaya fame (Hindi)
- Sonu (Kannada)
- Sophia Chaudhary
- Soundarya (Teluguu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi)
- Sridevi (Now Sridevi Kapoor) (Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil)
- Srividya
- Sripriya
- Subbulakshmi
- Suchitra Krishnamurthy (Hindi, Malayalam)
- Suchitra Sen (Hindi,Bengali)
- Sudha Chandran (Hindi, Telugu)
- Suhasini (Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil)
- Sukirti Kandpal (Dill Mill Gayye, Pyaar kii ye ek kahan, Jersey no. 10)
- Sulakshana Pandit
- Sulochana Devi (Hindi, Marathi)
- Sumalatha (Telugu, Kannada)
- Suman Ranganathan
- Sunaina (Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu)
- Supriya Karnik (Hindi)
- Supriya Pathak
- Suraiya
- Sushmita Sen (Hindi, Tamil)
- Sushma Reddy
- Sumalatha
- Swati Reddy (Telugu, Tamil)
- Swapna
- Swastika Mukherjee (Bengali)
- Sandhya (Hindi)
- Swetha Menon (Malayalam)
- Swetha (Telugu)
- Shriya Sharma (Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, advertisements, TV shows etc.)
- Sheena Chohan
T
- Tabu (Telugu, Tamil, Hindi)
- Tamannaah Bhatia (Tamil, Telugu)
- Tanisha (Hindi, Tamil)
- Tanushree Dutta
- Tanuja
- Tanvi Azmi
- Tanvi Verma
- Tina Munim (now Tina Ambani)
- Tisca Chopra
- Trisha Krishnan (Tamil, Telugu, Hindi)
- Tulip Joshi
- Tun Tun
- Twinkle Khanna
- Tara (Assamese, Manipuri, Punjabi, Hindi)
- Tara (Kannada, Hindi)
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