Actresses of India

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This is an alphabetical list of notable Indian film actresses.

A certain number of actresses of this list are also well-known because of their roles in television films and series, and are therefore included in both, this list and the list of television actresses.

A

• Aamani
• Aarti Chhabria
• Arzoo Govitrikar
• Arthi Agarwal
• Aditi Govitrikar
• Aditi Agarwal
• Aishwarya Rai
• Amala (actress)|Amala
• Ambika (actress)|Ambika
• Amisha Patel
• Amoolya
(kannada actress)
• Amrita Arora
• Amrita Dhanoa
• Amrita Prakash
• Amrita Rao
• Amrita Singh
• Anjali
• Anjala Jhaveri
• Anjana Sukhani
• Anjanaa (actress)|Anjana
• Anju Mahendru
• Ankitha
(kannada actress)
• Anthra Biswas
(Mona Lisa)
• Antara Mali
• Anu Agarwal
• Anu Prabhakar
(kannada actress)
• Anupama Verma
• Anuradha Mehta
• Anushka Shetty
• Apoorva Jha
• Aparna Arunkumar
• Aparna Sen
• Arathi (actress)|Arathi
(kannada actress)
• Archana Puran Singh
• Archana Shastri
• Aruna Irani
• Arundathi Nag
• Asha Parekh
• Ashwini Bhave
• Asin (actress)|Asin Thottumkal
• Ayesha Jhulka
• Ayesha Takia

B

• Babita
• Barkha
• Bhairavi Goswami
• Bharathi
• Bhagyashree Patwardhan
• Bhoomika Chawla
• Bhanupriya
• Bhavana (actress)|Bhavana
• Bhavana Shetty
(kannada actress)
• Bhavya
• Banu
• Bindiya Goswami
• Bipasha Basu

C

• Chitrashi Rawat
• Celina Jaitley
• Charmme Kaur
• Chery Shetty
• Cukoo
• Carol Gracias

D

• Daisy Bopanna
• Damini
• Deepal Shaw
• Deepali (actress)|Deepali
(kannada actress)
• Deepika Chikhalia
(Gujarati actress)
• Deepika Padukone
• Deepti Naval
• Deepti Bhatnagar
• Deepu
(kannada actress)
• Delnaaz Paul
• Devayani
• Devika Rani Roerich
• Devika (actress)|Devika
(kannada actress)
• Diana Hayden
• Dimple Kapadia
(now Dimple Khanna)
• Divya Bharati
• Divya Spandana
• Divya Unni
• Disco Shanthi
• Dia Mirza
• Durga Khote

E

• Esha Deol
• Ekta khosla
(south indian actress)

F

• Farah
• Farida Jalal
• Farzana
• Ferheen Ali Khan

G

• Gauhar Khan
• Gayatri Joshi
• Geeta Bali
• Geeta Basra
• Genelia D'Souza
• Girija Lokesh
• Gowri Munjal
• Gouthami
• Gracy Singh
• Gul Panag

H

• Hansika Motwani
• Helen (actress)|Helen
• Hema Malini
• Hrishitaa Bhatt
• Hamsika

I

• Ileana D'Cruz
• Ilene Hamann
• Isha Koppikar
• Isha Sherwani

J

• Jayabharathi
• Jayachitra
• Jasmin Nguyen
• J. Jayalalithaa
• Jaya Bachchan
(Jaya Bhaduri)
• Jayanthi
• Jayapradha
• Jayasudha
• Jaymala
• Jeni Patel
• Jennifer Kotwal
• Jharana Bajracharya
• Jiah Khan
• Joanna Lumley
• Juhi Chawla
• Julie Christie
• Jyothika

K

• Koyel Mallick
(Bengali)
• Kajol Devgan
• Kalpana
• Kamini Kaushal
• Kangana Ranaut
• Kanika (actress)|Kanika
• Kareena Kapoor
• Karisma Kapoor
• Katrina Kaif
• Kausalya (actress)|Kausalya
• Khursheed
• Kushboo
• Kimi Katkar
• Kim Sharma
• Kiran Rathod
• Kirron Kher
• Kirat Bhattal
• Konkona Sen Sharma
• Kashmera Shah

L

• Lalita
• Lara Dutta
• Laxmi (actress)|Laxmi
• Leela Chitnis
• Leelavathi
• Lisa Ray
• Laya (actress)|Laya

M

• Madhavi (actress)|Madhavi
• Madhoo
• Madhubala
• Madhuri Dixit
• Mahima Chaudhry
• Mala Sinha
• Malavika
• Malaika Arora
(Now Malaika Arora Khan)
• Mallika Kapoor
• Mallika Sherawat
• Mamta Kulkarni
• Mamta Mohandas
• Mandakini (actress) | Mandakini
• Mandira Bedi
• Manisha Koirala
• Manju Warrier
• Manjula
• Manorama
• Mantra (Actress)|Mantra
• Manya (actress)|Manya
• Meena Kumari
(Mahajabeen Bano)
• Meena
• Meenakshi Seshadri
• Meera Jasmine
• Meghna Naidu
• Merle Oberon
• Minissha Lamba
• Mita Vashisht
• Monalisa (actress)|Monalisa
• Mona Singh
• Mona Vasu
• Monica Bedi
• Monika
• Monika Dutt
• Monisha Unni
• Moushmi Chatterji
• Mumaith Khan
• Mumtaz

N

• Nadira (actress)|Nadira
• Nagma
• Namrata Shirodkar
• Namitha
• Nanda (actress)|Nanda
• Nandana Sen
• Nandita Das
• Nargis
(Now Nargis Dutt)
• Nauheed Cyrusi
• Navya Nair
• Nayantara
• Neelam
• Neena Gupta
• Neha Dhupia
• Neha Jhulka
• Neetha
• Neetu Chandra
• Neetu Singh
• Neethu
(kannada actress)
• Nidhi Tiwari
• Nikita Anand
• Nikita Rimal
• Nila
• Nirupa Roy
• Nishi
• Nimmi
• Nisha Kothari
• Noor Jehan
• Nutan
• Nishcitha Gowda
(kannada actress)

P

• Padmapriya
• Padma Lakshmi
• Padma Khanna
• Padmini Kolhapure
• Padmini
(Now Padmini Ramachandran)
• Pandari Bai
• Parminder Nagra
• Parvati Melton
• Parvati Menon
• Parveen Babi
• Patience Cooper
• Payal Rohatgi
• Perizaad Zorabian
• Pooja Batra
• Pooja Bedi
• Pooja Bhatt
• Pooja gandhi
• Pooja Kanval
• Pooja Umashankar
• Poonam Dhillon
• Preity Zinta
• Priya Gill
• Priyamani|Priya Mani
• Priya Ram
• Priyanka Chopra
• Priyanka Trivedi
• Preeti Jhangiani
• Pooru Gal

R

• Raakhee
(Now Raakhi Gulzar)
• Raadhika
(Now Raadhika Sarathkumar)
• Raasi
(South Indian Actress)
• Radha (actress)|Radha
• Radhika
(South Indian Actress)
• Raima Sen
• Rajshree
• Rajasree
(Telugu actress)
• Rakhi Sawant
• Rakshita
• Rambha (actress)|Rambha
• Rani Mukherjee
• Ranjeeta
(Hindi movies)
• Ranjitha
(Telugu actress)
• Divya Spandana|Ramya
• Ramya Krishna
(Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam & Hindi actress)
• Rashmi
(kannada actress)
• Rati Agnihotri
• Ratna Pathak Shah
• Raveena Tandon
• Reena Roy
• Reemma Sen
• Rekha
• Rekha Vedavyas
(Telugu, Kannada actress)
• Renuka Shahane
• Revathi Menon
• Rimi Sen
• Rinkie Khanna
• Rinku Ghosh
• Riya Sen
• Rohini Hattangadi
• Roja (actress)|Roja
• Rushali

S

• Sagarika Ghatge
• Sadha
• Sadaf Hussein
• Sadhana (actress)|Sadhana
• Sadhika
• Sandhya
• Sandhya Mridul
• Sakshi Shivanand
• Saira Banu
• Salma Agha
• Saloni Aswani
• Samyukta Verma
• Samiksha
• Sameera Reddy
• Sangeeta Bijlani
• Sandali Sinha
• Sanjana Gandhi
• Santoshi (actress)|Santoshi
(kannada actress)
• Sarah Khan
• Sarika
• Saritha
• B. Saroja Devi|Saroja Devi
• Savithri
• Shabana Azmi
• Shalini
(Baby Shalini)
• Shamili
(Baby Shamili)
• Sharmila Mandre
• Shakeela
• Shamita Shetty
• Sharmila Tagore
• Shashikala
• Sherin
• Sherlyn Chopra
(was Mona Chopra)
• Shilpa Shetty
• Shilpa Shirodkar
• Shilpa Shivanand
• Shivani Kapur(actress)|Shivani
(kannada actress)
• Shweta Pamula
• Shweta Tiwari
• Shwetta Bachan
• Shobhana
• Shobhna Samarth
• Shruthi K. Haasan
• Shruti (actress)|Shruti
• Shriya Saran
(Shreya)
• Shubha Poonja
(kannada actress)
• Sima Pal
• Simi Garewal
• Simone Singh
• Simple Kaur
• Simran (actress)|Simran
(Now Simran Bagga)
• Sindhu Tolani
• Silk Smitha
• Smiley Suri
• Smita Patel
• Smriti Irani
(Smriti Malhotra)
• Sneha Ullal
• Sneha
• Soha Ali Khan
• Somi Ali
• Sonali Bendre
• Sonam
• Sonam Kapoor
• Sonali Bendre
• Sonali Kulkarni
• Sonia Agarwal
• Sonia Jehan
• Sonia Sahni
• Sonu (actress)|Sonu
(kannada actress)
• Sophia Chaudhary
• Soundarya
• Sridevi
(Now Sridevi Kapoor)
• M.S. Subbulakshmi|Subbulakshmi
• Suchitra Krishnamurthy
• Suchitra Sen
• Sudha Chandran
• Sudharani
• Suhasini Mani Ratnam|Suhasini
• Sumalatha
• Suman Ranganathan
• Supriya Pathak
• Sushmita Sen
• Sushma Reddy

T

• Tabu (actress)|Tabu
• Tamanna
• Tanisha
• Tanushree Dutta
• Tanuja
• Tanvi Verma
• Tara Sharma
• Tina Majumdar
• Tina Munim
(Now Tina Ambani)
• Tisca Chopra
• Trisha Krishnan
• Tulip Joshi
• Tuntun
• Twinkle Khanna

U

• Udita Goswami
• Ujjwala Raut
• Uma shankari
(south actress)
• Urmila Matondkar
• Urvashi Sharma
• Umashree
Kannada Actress

V

• Vasundhara Das
• Veena (actress)|Veena
• Vidya Balan
• Vidya Sinha
• Vijayashanti
• Viveka
• Vyjayantimala
(Now Vyjayantimala Bali)

W

• Waheeda Rehman

Y

• Yana Gupta
• Yogeeta Bali
• Yukta Mookhey

Z

• Zareena wahab
• Zeenat Aman
• Zeba Bakhtiyar