Moon Moon Sen Biography

Moon Moon Sen is an Indian actress born on March 28, 1948 in Calcutta (now Kolkata). She is the daughter of renowned Bengali actress Suchitra Sen and Dibanath Sen. She belonged to the wealthiest family of Culcutta of early times. She has done her schooling from Loreto Convent, Shillong and Loreto House, Culcutta. She completed her graduation from Somerville College, Oxford and did her Masters in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

As a child she was interested in painting and has learnt the art from one of the greatest Indian artist Jamini Roy. Before venturing into films, she used to teach English Literature at Ballygunge Government High School.

After her marriage and in her days of motherhood she debuted in Bollywood with 'Andar Baahar', in the same year she marked her debut in Bengali Cinema with 'Baidurya Rahasya'. She has done number of films in Hindi and Bengali, also she has ventured in other regional Cinemas of Marathi, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada languages. She was much ahead for her times and didn't sway away from getting projected in the soap ads, which were then controversial in the era of 1980s.

In 2014, Moon Moon joined Indian politics with Trinamool Congress and won Lok Sabha Poll right in her first attempt.

On the personal front, Moon Moon got married to Bharat Dev Varma, a royal descendent of Tripura State and has two daughters with him, the actresses Raima Sen and Riya Sen. She gives the entire credit of her career to supporting husband allowed her to explore being protective at the same time.