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{{short description|Indian actress}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2016}}
{{Use Indian English|date=February 2016}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Bijoya Ray
| image = Bijoya-Ray-pic.jpg
| alt =
| caption =
| native_name =
| native_name_lang = bn
| birth_name = Bijoya Das
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1917|10|27|}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2015|06|02|1917|10|27}}
| death_place = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]]
| nationality = [[India]]n
| occupation =
| known_for =
| spouse = [[Satyajit Ray]]
| children = [[Sandip Ray]]
}}
'''Bijoya Ray''' (''[[Birth name|née]]'' Das; 27 October 1917 – 2 June 2015)<ref name=TOI>{{cite news|title=Satyajit Ray's wife Bijoya Ray passes away|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/news/Satyajit-Rays-wife-Bijoya-Ray-passes-away/articleshow/47518617.cms|access-date=7 June 2015|work=The Times of India|date=2 June 2015|archive-date=2 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150602194552/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/news/Satyajit-Rays-wife-Bijoya-Ray-passes-away/articleshow/47518617.cms|url-status=live}}</ref> was the wife of the [[Indian people|Indian]] [[filmmaker]] [[Satyajit Ray]]. Their son [[Sandip Ray]] is also a film director. Bijoya and Satyajit were first cousins.<ref name="Ray1983">{{cite book|author=Satyajit Ray|title=Phatik Chand|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WUGblVEgENkC&pg=PA112|access-date=19 June 2012|date=15 January 1983|publisher=Orient Paperbacks|isbn=978-81-222-0420-9|pages=112–|archive-date=2 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102060522/http://books.google.com/books?id=WUGblVEgENkC&pg=PA112|url-status=live}}</ref> After a long courtship, they were married in 1949.<ref name="RayCardullo2007">{{cite book|author1=Satyajit Ray|author2=Bert Cardullo|title=Satyajit Ray: Interviews|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fQYs4X5d9WAC&pg=PR18|access-date=19 June 2012|date=1 March 2007|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-57806-937-8|pages=18–|archive-date=2 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102060507/http://books.google.com/books?id=fQYs4X5d9WAC&pg=PR18|url-status=live}}</ref> Bijoya Ray acted and sang playback song in a [[Bengali language|Bengali]] feature film called ''Shesh Raksha'' in 1944 and also acted in the documentary ''Gaach'' (The Tree) by Catherine Berge in 1998. She died in [[Kolkata]] on 2 June 2015, aged 97, after suffering from [[pneumonia|acute pneumonia]].<ref name="Satyajit Ray’s Wife Bijoya Ray passes away">{{cite web | url=http://www.kolkata24x7.com/entertainment/satyajit-rays-wife-bijoya-ray-passes-away | title=Satyajit Ray's Wife Bijoya Ray passes away | access-date=2 June 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150602192131/http://www.kolkata24x7.com/entertainment/satyajit-rays-wife-bijoya-ray-passes-away | archive-date=2 June 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Bijoya Ray was born as Bijoya Das to Charu Chandra Das, a barrister and Madhuri Devi, younger sister of nationalist leader [[Chittaranjan Das|'Deshbandhu' C R Das]]'s wife [[Basanti Devi]]. She was the youngest of four daughters. One of her elder siblings Sati Devi was also a well known singer and musical exponent who worked with [[Uday Shankar]] in [[Almora]] and at [[Prithvi Theatre]] in Bombay and her daughter [[Ruma Guha Thakurta]] is a well-known personality in music and acting world who was formerly married to the legendary singer [[Kishore Kumar]]. She had a versatile acting talent although she didn't work in many films. Her paternal aunt was Kanak Das(Biswas) a famous singer of the time.<ref>[Book - Manik and I (Amader Katha) Author Bijoya Ray]</ref>

Bijoya grew up in [[Patna]] and was educated in a convent. She had a gifted voice and her father wanted to send her to [[Paris]] to be trained in soprano and western classical music. In 1931, when she was thirteen her father died and she along with her mother and sisters had to come to Calcutta to her paternal uncle Prasant Das's house. It was here that she met her first cousin [[Satyajit Ray|Satyajit]]. They were drawn to each other very soon and their common interests were Film and western classical music. She graduated from the [[Jogamaya Devi College]], an affiliated undergraduate women's college of the historic [[University of Calcutta]], in [[Kolkata]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://jogamayadevicollege.org/history.htm |title=History of the College |access-date=22 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726210012/http://www.jogamayadevicollege.org/history.htm |archive-date=26 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> After graduating, she worked as a teacher at Bethune School and Kamala Girls School, Kolkata and also as a clerk in a government office for a brief time. She left her job and went to Bombay to start a film career.<ref>{{cite book|title=Amader Katha (Manik and I) |author=Bijoya Ray}}</ref>

== Career ==
She worked in a few films without success or satisfaction. In 1949 she married [[Satyajit Ray]]. Their only son [[Sandip Ray|Sandip]] was born in 1953.<ref name=RayCardullo2007 /> Bijoya Ray remained a constant inspiration and influence in [[Satyajit Ray|Ray]]'s life. After her husband's death in 1992, she lived in [[Calcutta]] with her son [[Sandip Ray|Sandip]], daughter-in-law Lalita and grandson Saurodip. She wrote an autobiography "Amader kotha (আমাদের কথা {{ISBN|81-7756-687-3}})" which is published by [[Ananda Publishers]]. She died on 2 June 2015 aged 97 after suffering from Pneumonia.

== Filmography ==
* ''Shesh Raksha'' (1944)
* ''Mashaal'' (1950)
* ''[[Rajani (film)|Rajani]]''

==References==
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== External links ==
*{{IMDb name|1142506}}
{{Ray family}}
{{Dwarkanath Ganguly family}}
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