Jayashree Kabir
{{Short description|Bangladeshi actress}}
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|birth_date={{birth year and age|1952}}
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|spouse=Alamgir Kabir
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Jayashree Kabir ({{nee|Roy}}; born {{circa}} 1952) is a Bengali film actress.{{cite news |date=1 March 2003 |title=Back in showbiz, where she belongs - Ray heroine wants to revive robi ghosh play |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/back-in-showbiz-where-she-belongs-ray-heroine-wants-to-revive-robi-ghosh-play/cid/1257311 | first=Reshmi | last=Sengupta|accessdate=20 January 2019 |newspaper=The Telegraph |location=Calcutta }} She acted in around 30 films in West Bengal and Bangladesh.
Career
While studying in South Point School Jayashree Roy earned Miss Kolkata title in 1968. She got her first break from Satyajit Ray through the film Pratidwandi in 1969.{{cite web |url=http://satyajitray.ucsc.edu/films/pratidwandi |title=Pratidwandi (The Adversary) |website=Satyajit Ray Film and Study Center |publisher=University of California, Santa Cruz |access-date=17 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150630002600/http://satyajitray.ucsc.edu/films/pratidwandi |archive-date=30 June 2015 |url-status=dead }} She married Bangladeshi film director Alamgir Kabir and starred in two of his films, Simana Periye and Rupali Soikote, which are regarded by the British Film Institute (BFI) as among the finest films to have come out of Bangladesh.{{cite web |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/imagineasia/guide/poll/bangladesh/index.html |title=Top 10 Bangladeshi Films |date=17 July 2007 |website=British Film Institute |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090527125002/http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/imagineasia/guide/poll/bangladesh/index.html |archive-date=27 May 2009 |access-date=17 October 2015}} Later in life, she moved to London where she now resides. She teaches English at a higher education college.
Films
- Pratidwandi (1970)
- Rodonbhora bosonto (1974)
- Surjo Konna (1975)
- Simana Periye (1977){{Cite news|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/suppliments/2006/15thanniv/celebrating_bd/celeb_bd21.htm|title=The red and green silver screen|date=4 February 2006|accessdate=5 May 2016|newspaper=The Daily Star|archive-date=11 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140911021953/http://archive.thedailystar.net/suppliments/2006/15thanniv/celebrating_bd/celeb_bd21.htm|url-status=dead}}
- Sabyasachi (1977)
- Rupali Saikate (1979)
- Ashadharan (1982)
- Puroskar (1983)
Personal life
Jayashree Roy has a son, Lenin Saurav Kabir, with her husband Alamgir Kabir.{{cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-161774|title=Out of sight, not out of mind|date=9 November 2010|accessdate=5 May 2016|newspaper=The Daily Star}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|1539692}}
{{Bachsas Award for Best Supporting Actress}}
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Category:Bangladeshi emigrants to England
Category:Bangladeshi film actresses