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{{Infobox person<br />
|name = Karuna Banerjee<br />
|image = Pather 14.jpg<br />
|imagesize = 170px<br />
|caption = Karuna Banerjee in ''[[Pather Panchali (film)|Pather Panchali]]'' (1955)<br />
|birth_name = Karuna Bandhyopadhyay<br />
|birth_date = 25 December 1919<ref name="BanerjeeBanerjee1999">{{cite book|author1=Karuna Banerjee|author2=Samik Banerjee|title=An Actress in Her Time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vv5kAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Celluloid Chapter|page=11}}</ref><br />
|birth_place = [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]<br />
|death_date = 13 November 2001 (aged 81)<br />
|death_place = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]<br />
|alma_mater = [[University of Calcutta]]<br />
|occupation = Actress <br />
|othername = <br />
|yearsactive = <br />
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|website = <br />
|awards ='''Nominated''' '''[[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role|Best Actress]]'''<br /> [[1958 in film|1958]] ''[[Aparajito]]''<br />
}}<br />
'''Karuna Banerjee''' ({{lang-bn|করুণা ব্যানার্জী}}) (25 December 1919 – 13 November 2001) was a [[Bengali people|Bengali]] actress best known for her role in [[Satyajit Ray]]'s ''[[The Apu Trilogy]]'' (1955–1959) as the long suffering mother, Sarbajaya. She was nominated for [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role|Best Actress]] at the [[12th British Academy Film Awards|1959 BAFTA Awards]] for her performance in ''[[Aparajito]]'' (1956), the second part of ''The Apu Trilogy''. She appeared in a number of other films after that, including Ray's ''[[Devi (1960 film)|Devi]]'' (1960) and ''[[Kanchenjungha]]'' (1962).<br />
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==Early life==<br />
She graduated from the [[Jogamaya Devi College]], an affiliated women's college of the [[University of Calcutta]].<ref name=History>[http://www.jogamayadevicollege.org/history.htm History of the College]</ref><br />
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==Acting career==<br />
Banerjee's acting career expanded over more than two decades in [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali cinema]] and [[Theatre of India|theatre]]. She is best known for her memorable performance as Sarbajaya, the mother in the first two parts of [[Satyajit Ray]]'s ''[[The Apu Trilogy]]'': ''[[Pather Panchali (film)|Pather Panchali]]'' (1955) and ''[[Aparajito]]'' (1956). Her performance in the latter earned her a [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role|Best Actress]] nomination at the [[12th British Academy Film Awards|1959 BAFTA Awards]]. She acted in a few more films, including two more by Ray, one by [[Mrinal Sen]], and one by [[Ritwik Ghatak]] that was never officially released.<br />
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==Filmography==<br />
* ''[[Pather Panchali (film)|Pather Panchali]]'' (1955), directed by [[Satyajit Ray]]<br />
* ''[[Aparajito]]'' (1956), directed by [[Satyajit Ray]]<br />
* ''Headmaster'' (1959), directed by Agragami<br />
* ''Shubha Bibaha'' (1959), directed by [[Sombhu Mitra]] and Amit Maitra<br />
* ''Kato Ajanare'' (1959), directed by [[Ritwik Ghatak]]<br />
* ''[[Devi (1960 film)|Devi]]'' (1960), directed by [[Satyajit Ray]]<br />
* ''[[Kanchenjungha]]'' (1962), directed by [[Satyajit Ray]]<br />
* ''To Light a Candle'', directed by Shanti P. Chowdhury<br />
* ''[[Interview (1971 film)|Interview]]'' (1971), directed by [[Mrinal Sen]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
*Satyajit Ray, the filmmaker, the book of the films, ''The Apu Trilogy'' ({{ISBN|0-85647-100-3}})<br />
*Karuna Banerjee's collection of writings were published as a book, entitled ''An Actress in Her Time (A Celluloid Chapter Persona Series)'' in English and in Bengali.<br />
*''Sarbajaya: Selected Writings of Karuna Banerjee'' ({{ISBN|81-86017-13-5}})<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb name | id=0052334 | name=Karuna Banerjee}}<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927211144/http://www.lovefilm.com/visitor/browse_contributor/87277/Karuna_Banerjee.html Page from Lovefilm.com]<br />
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