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See Tagore for disambiguation Sharmila Tagore (Bengali: শর্মিলা ঠাকুর Shormila Ṭhakur; 8 December...

See Tagore for disambiguation Sharmila Tagore (Bengali: শর্মিলা ঠাকুর Shormila Ṭhakur; 8 December 1946) is a Indian film actress from Bengal. She has won several National Film Awards and Filmfare Awards for her performances. She has lead the Indian Film Censor Board. In December 2005 she was chosen as an UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador . Sharmila Tagore was born in a Bengali family in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India to Gitindranath Tagore who was then Dy. General Manager of the British India Company owner of Elgin Mills. Tagore began her career as an actress in the 1959 Satyajit Ray film Apur Sansar (The World of Apu), as the ill-fated bride of the title character. As noted on the official website for Ray, "She was just a fourteen-year-old then, with no previous acting experience. As the shooting began, Ray had to shout instructions to Sharmila during the takes. None of this, however, is reflected on the screen. Ray cast her in his next film Devi too." She appeared in a number of Ray films, often co-starring with Soumitra Chatterjee. She established herself as a popular Hindi film actress with Shakti Samanta's Kashmir Ki Kali in 1964. Samanta would cast her in many more hit films such