Supriya Pathak Kapur (born 7 January 1961) is an
Indian actress hailing from a long line of performers. She is famous for her role in the Indian sitcoms
Khichdi and
Idhar Udhar.
Family
Supriya Pathak is daughter of
Dina Pathak, a well known character actress famous for playing mother and grandmother roles during the 1980s and 1990s. Her sister
Ratna Pathak Shah is also an actress, who is married to actor
Naseeruddin Shah. Supriya is married to actor
Pankaj Kapur with whom she has a daughter and son. Her step son is the famous Bollywood actor
Shahid Kapoor.
Career
Supriya began her career with the critically acclaimed 1981 film
Kalyug which was followed by roles in many more critically acclaimed films such as
Vijeta (1982),
Bazaar (1983),
Masoom (1983) and
Mirch Masala (1985). She also had a minor role as
Mahatma Gandhi's niece in the multi-award-winning
biopic Gandhi (1982) and starred in the 1988
French film
The Bengali Night alongside
Hugh Grant and in
Raakh opposite
Aamir Khan. In the early 1990s, she took a long break from acting in films but appeared in several television series. After an 11-year hiatus from acting, she starred in the 2005 film
Sarkar opposite
Amitabh Bachchan, following which she also worked in some other films, most recently being the 2009
Ranbir Kapoor -
Konkona Sen Sharma starrer
Wake Up Sid. She is best known...
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