Key facts
- Born
- Riya Dev Varma , ( 1981-01-24 ) 24 January 1981 (age 45) , Calcutta , West Bengal, India
- Occupations
- Actress model
- Years active
- 1991–present
- Spouse
- Shivam Tewari ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2017 )
- Mother
- Moon Moon Sen
- Relatives
- Raima Sen (sister), Suchitra Sen (grandmother)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- India
- Place of birth
- Kolkata
- Mother
- Moon Moon Sen
- Sibling
- Raima Sen
- Occupation
- actor
- Educated at
- University of Calcutta
- Languages spoken
- Bangla
- Image
- Riya Sen at the success bash of ALTBalaji (04).jpg
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- birth name
- Riya Dev Sen
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- Riya Sen
- date of birth
- 1981-01-24
- name in native language
- রিয়া সেন
- start of work period
- 1991-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Riya Sen ( Bengali pronunciation: [rija ʃen]; born Riya Dev Varma; 24 January 1981) is an Indian actress and model who predominantly appears in Hindi, Bengali, English, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Odia films.
Born to actress Moon Moon Sen and Bharat Dev Varma, Sen comes from a royal background. Her father hails from the royal family of the erstwhile Tripura State. He was the son of Ila Devi, a princess of Cooch Behar State and nephew of Gayatri Devi, Maharani of Jaipur State. Sen's grandmother Suchitra Sen was a veteran actress. She began her acting career when she was five years old, playing her mother's daughter on screen for the first time. Later in 1991 she worked as a child actress in the film Vishkanya. Her first commercial success in her film career was with Style, a 2001 Hindi low-budget comedy directed by N. Chandra. Some of her other notable films include producer Pritish Nandy's musical film, Jhankaar Beats (2003) in Hinglish, and Malayalam horror film Ananthabhadram (2005). She won the Star Guide Award as best actress for her performance in Noukadubi.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Riya Sen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.