List of Indian film actresses

This is an alphabetical list of notable female Indian film actors.

A

• Aamna Shariff
• Aarathi (Kannada)
• Aarti Chhabria
• Aamani
• Archita Sahu (Oriya)
• Arthi Agarwal (Telugu)
• Adah Sharma
• Aditi Govitrikar
• Additi Gupta (tv serial)
• Aishwarya Rai (now Aishwarya Rai Bachchan)(Hindi, Tamil, Telegu, Bengali, English)
• Amala (Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu)
• Ambika (Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada)
• Ameeta (Hindi)
• Amisha Patel (Hindi,Telugu)
• Amoolya (Kannada)
• Amrita Arora (Hindi)
• Amrita Prakash (Hindi, Malayalam)
• Amrita Rao (Hindi,Telugu)
• Amrita Singh
• Andrita Ray (Kannada)
• Anita Hassanandani
• Anita Guha
• Anita Raj
• Anjala Zhaveri(Telugu)
• Anjali (Tamil)
• Anjali Devi (Telugu)
• Anjana Bhowmick (Hindi, Bengali)
• Anjana Sukhani
• Anju Mahendru
• Ankita Lokhande (TV Serial)
• Antara Mali
• Anu Agarwal (Hindi)
• Anu Prabhakar (Kannada)
• Anu Mehta(Telugu)
• Anupama Verma
• Anuradha Mehta
• Anusha Dandekar (Indian,Hindi)
• Anushka Sharma
• Anushka Shetty (Telugu,Tamil)
• Aparajita Mohanty (Oriya)
• Aparna Sen
• Archana Jose Kavi (Malayalam)
• Archana Puran Singh
• Archana (actress) (Tamil)
• Aruna Irani (Gujarati,Hindi)
• Arundathi Nag(Kannada)
• Asha Parekh (Hindi)
• Ashwini Bhave(Marathi, Hindi)
• Asin Thottumkal (Telugu,Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, English)
• Ashvini Bhave-Bopardikar (Marathi, Hindi)
• Ayesha Jhulka (Hindi)
• Ayesha Takia Azmi (Hindi,Telugu)
• Archana kavi (Malayalam)

B

• Babita
• Banu (Tamil)
• Barbara Mori (Hindi, English)
• Barsha Priyadarshini (oriya)
• Bhagyashree Patwardhan (Hindi,kannada)
• Bhairavi Goswami (Hindi)
• Bhama (Malayalam)
• Bhanumathi (Telugu, Tamil)
• Bhanupriya (Telugu,Tamil,Malayalam, Hindi)
• Bharathi (Kannada)
• Bhavana (Malayalam, Tamil,Telugu)
• Bhavya(Kannada)
• Bhoomika Chawla (Telugu,Hindi,Punjabi,Tamil,Malayalam)
• Bindiya Goswami
• Bindu (Hindi)
• Bipasha Basu (Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu)

C

• Chitrashi Rawat
• Celina Jaitley (Hindi,Telugu)
• Charmme Kaur (Telugu,Malayalam,Tamil)
• Chaya Singh (Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil)
• Carol Gracias
• Chitrangada Singh
• Charmi(,Telugu)
• Cukoo

D

• Daisy Bopanna (Kannada, Malayalam,Tamil,Telugu,Hindi)
• Debasree Roy (Bengali, Hindi)
• Deepa Sahi (Hindi)
• Deepal Shaw
• Deepali (Kannada, Tamil)
• Deepika Chikhalia (Gujarati)
• Deepika Padukone (Kannada, Hindi)
• Deepti Naval(Marathi, Hindi)
• Deepti Bhatnagar
• Delnaaz Paul
• Devayani (actress) (Malayalam, Tamil)
• Devika (Telugu)
• Devika Rani Roerich
• Diana Hayden (Hindi)
• Dimple Kapadia (Hindi)
• Divya Bharati (Hindi, Telugu)
• Divya Spandana (Kannada, Tamil, Telugu)
• Divya Dutta
• Divya Unni (Malayalam, Tamil)
• Dia Mirza (Telugu, Hindi)
• Durga Khote(Marathi, Hindi)

E

• Eesha Narang née Koppikar (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi)
• Esha Deol (Hindi, Tamil)

F

• Farida Jalal
• Freida Pinto
• Farzana
• Ferena Wazier

G

• Gajala (Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada)
• Gayatri Patel
• Gauhar Khan
• Gayatri Joshi
• Geeta Bali
• Geeta Basra
• Genelia D'Souza (Telugu, Tamil,Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi
• Girija (Telugu)
• Gouthami (Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi)
• Gracy Singh (Hindi,Malayalam,Telugu)
• Gul Panag
• Gowri Pandit
• Geetu Mohandas (Malayalam, Tamil)
• Geeta Dutt (Hindi)

H

• Hansika Motwanikannada
• Helen (Hindi)
• Hema Malini (Tamil, Hindi)
• Hrishitaa Bhatt
• Heera Rajagopal (Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi)
• Hina Khan-Hindi TV Serial Yeh Rishta Kya Kehelata Hai.(The role of Akshara)

I

• Ileana D'Cruz (Telugu, Tamil, Hindi,kannada)
• Ilene Hamann
• Indrani Haldar

J

• Jacqueline Fernandez (Hindi,Telugu}
• Jayabharathi (Malayalam, Tamil)
• Jayachitra (Telugu, Tamil)
• J. Jayalalithaa (Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, English)
• Jaya Bachchan (Jaya Bhaduri) (Hindi, Bengali)
• Jayanthi (actress) (Telugu, Kannada, Tamil,Malayalam)
• Jayapradha (Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, Malayalam, Bengali)
• Jayasudha (Telugu, Tamil, Hindi)
• Jayamala (Kannada, Telugu, Tamil)
• Jayamalini
• Jennifer Kotwal
• Jennifer Winget (tv serial)
• Jharana Bajracharya
• Jiah Khan
• Juhi Chawla (Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi)
• Jyothika Saravanan (Jyothika Surya)

K

• Kajal Agarwal (Telugu, Tamil)
• Kajal Kiran (Hindi)
• Kajol (Hindi, Tamil)
• Kalpana (Malayalam actress) (Malayalam, Tamil)
• Kalpana Kartik
• Kamini Kaushal (Tamil)
• Kamalinee Mukherjee (Telugu, Tamil)
• Kanakam (Telugu)
• Kanchana (Kannada, Telugu, Tamil)
• Kangana Ranaut (Hindi, Tamil)
• Kanika (Tamil, Malayalm, Telugu, Kannada)
• Kareena Kapoor (Hindi)
• Karishma Kapoor (Hindi)
• Karthika (Tamil)
• Katrina Kaif (Hindi)
• Kashmira Shah
• Kausalya (Tamil)
• Kavya Madhavan (Malayalam, Tamil)
• Khursheed
• Kimi Katkar
• Kim Sharma (Hindi, English)
• Kiran Rathod (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam)
• Kirron Kher
• Kirat Bhattal (Tamil)
• Kitu Gidwani
• Koel Mullick (Bengali)
• Koel Purie
• Koena Mitra (Hindi, Tamil)
• Krishna Kumari (Telugu, Tamil)
• Kushboo (Tamil, kannada)
• Konkona Sen Sharma (Bengali, Hindi)
• K. R. Vijaya (Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu)

L

• Laila Mehdin (Tamil, Malayalam)
• Lalita Pawar (Hindi)
• Lara Dutta (Tamil, Hindi, Punjabi)
• Laxmi (Tamil)
• Laya (Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam)
• Leela Chitnis
• Lilette Dubey
• Lisa Ray (Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu)

M

• Madhavi (Telugu,Kannada,Malayayalam,Hindi,Tamil)
• Madhoo (Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada)
• Madhubala (Hindi)
• Madhuri Dixit (Hindi)
• Mahasweta Roy (Oriya)
• Mahi Gill (Hindi, Punjabi)
• Mahima Chaudhry (Hindi)
• Mala Sinha (Nepali, Bengali, Hindi)
• Malavika (Tamil, Hindi,Telugu,Malayalam)
• Malaika Arora (Now Malaika Arora Khan) (Hindi, Telugu)
• Mallika Kapoor (Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi)
• Mallika Sherawat (Hindi, Tamil, Chinese)
• Mamta Kulkarni (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Malayalam, kannada)
• Mamta Mohandas (Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu)
• Mandakini (Hindi)
• Mandira Bedi (Hindi, Tamil)
• Manisha Koirala (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Malayalam, Nepali)
• Manju Warrier (Malayalam)
• Manjula (Telugu, Tamil)
• Manorama (Tamil)
• Mantra (Tamil)
• Manya
• Mayuri Kango
• Meena Kumari (Mahajabeen Bano)(Hindi)
• Meena Durairaj (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam)
• Meenakshi Seshadri (Tamil,Telugu, Hindi)
• Meera Jasmine (Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada)
• Meera Nandan (Malayalam, Tamil)
• Meghna Naidu (Telugu, Tamil)
• Merle Oberon
• Minissha Lamba
• Mita Vashisht
• Monalisa (Hindi)
• Mona Singh (Anglo Indian)
• Monica Bedi (Hindi, Punjabi)
• Monisha Unni (Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada)
• Moon Moon Sen (Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi, Kannada)
• Moushmi Chatterji (Hindi, Bengali)
• Mumaith Khan (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu)
• Mumtaz (Hindi)
• Mugdha Godse (Hindi)

N

• Nadira
• Nadiya Moidu (Malayalam, Tamil)
• Nagma (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Marathi)
• Nalini(Kannada,Tamil,Telugu,Malayalam)
• Nalini Jaywant (Hindi)
• Namrata Shirodkar (Marathi, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam)
• Namitha (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi)
• Nanda (Hindi)
• Nandana Sen
• Nandita Chandra
• Nandita Das (Hindi, Oriya, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, English, Rajastani )
• Nargis (Now Nargis Dutt) (Hindi)
• Nauheed Cyrusi
• Navya Nair (Malayalam, Tamil)
• Nayantara (Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu)
• Neelam (Hindi)
• Neelam Verma (English, Hindi)
• Neelima Azeem (Hindi)
• Neena Gupta (Hindi)
• Neha Dhupia (Japanese, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil)
• Neha Jhulka (Hindi, Telugu)
• Neeru Bajwa (Punjabi,Hindi)
• Neetu Chandra
• Neetu Singh (Hindi)
• Niharika Singh
• Nikita Anand
• Nikita Thukral
• Nila (Tamil)
• Nimmi (Hindi)
• Nirupa Roy
• Nisha Kothari
• Nishi (Tamil)
• Noor Jehan (Urdu)
• Nutan (Hindi)
• Nirosha (Telugu, Tamil, Kannada)

P

• Padmapriya (Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada)
• Padma Khanna
• Padma Lakshmi
• Padmini Kolhapure (Hindi)
• Padmini (Now Padmini Ramachandran) (Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Hindi)
• Panchi Bora
• Pandari Bai (Kannada, Tamil)
• Parminder Nagra
• Parul Chauhan (TV Serial)
• Parvathy Jayaram (Malayalam)
• Parvati Melton
• Parvati Menon (Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada)
• Parveen Babi (Hindi)
• Patience Cooper
• Payal Rohatgi (Hindi)
• Payal Ghosh (Telugu)
• Perizaad Zorabian
• Pooja Batra (Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam)
• Pooja Bedi (Hindi)
• Pooja Bhatt (Hindi)
• Pooja Gandhi (Kannada)
• Pooja Umashankar (Tamil)
• Poonam Dhillon
• Prachi Desai
• Preeti Jhangiani
• Preity Zinta (Telugu, Hindi)
• Prema (Kannada, Telugu)
• Prema Narayan
• Priya Gill (Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi)
• Priya Lal (Malayalam)
• Priya Rai (English)
• Priya Mani (Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada)
• Priyanka Chopra (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu)
• Priyanka Sharma (Hindi)
• Priyanka Trivedi (Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Hindi)
• Priya Rajvansh (Hindi)

R

• Raakhee (Now Raakhi Gulzar) (Bengali, Hindi)
• Raadhika (Now Raadhika Sarathkumar) (Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Hindi)
• Raasi (South Indian Actress) (Telugu)
• Rachana (Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Oriya)
• Radha (Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil)
• Raadhika Sarathkumar (South Indian Actress) (Kannada, Tamil)
• Radhika Pandit (Kannada)
• Rajshree (Hindi)
• Raima Sen (Telugu, Bengali, Hindi, Tamil)
• Rakhi Sawant
• Rakshita (Kannada, Telugu)
• Rambha (Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Bengali, Bhojpuri)
• Rameshwari
• Ranjitha (Tamil)
• Rani Mukherjee (Hindi, Bengali, Tamil)
• Ramya (Kannada, Tamil, Telugu)
• Ramya Krishna (Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi)
• Ratan Rajput (TV Serial)
• Rati Agnihotri (Tamil, HIndi)
• Ratna Pathak Shah
• Raveena Tandon (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada)
• Reena Roy (Hindi, Punjabi)
• Reema Sen (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali)
• Rekha (Hindi, Tamil)
• Renuka Shahane (Hindi)
• Revathi Menon (Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi)
• Rimi Sen (Hindi, Bengali)
• Rituparna Sengupta (Hindi, Bengali)
• Riya Sen (Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, English, Malayalam)
• Rohini Hattangadi (Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam)
• Roja (Telugu, Taml, Kannada)
• Roma (Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada)
• Roopa Ganguly (Bengali, Hindi)
• Roshni Chopra (TV Serial)
• Ruby Parihar (Telugu, Kannada)

S

• Sagarika Ghatge
• Sadha (Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi)
• Sadhana (Hindi, Tamil)
• Sandhya (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada)
• Sandhya Mridul
• Sakshi Shivanand (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada)
• Sakshi Talwar (TV Serial)
• Sakshi Tanwar (TV Serial and Film Actress)
• Saira Banu (Hindi)
• Salma Agha
• Saloni Aswani (Telugu, Kannada)
• Samantha Ruth Prabhu (Telugu, Kannada)
• Samiksha (Telugu, Tamil)
• Sameera Reddy (Hindi, Telugu, Bengali, Tamil)
• Samvrutha Sunil (Malayalam, Tamil)
• Sangeeta Bijlani
• Sandali Sinha
• Sanjana Gandhi
• Santoshi (Tamil)
• Sara Khan (Tv Serial)
• Saranya Mohan (Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu)
• Sarika
• Saritha (Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam)
• Saroja Devi (Telugu, Kannada, Tamil)
• Savitri (Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada)
• Sayali Bhagat
• Shabana Azmi (Hindi)
• Shalini (Baby Shalini) (Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu)
• Shamili (Baby Shamili) (Telugu, Kannada, Tamil)
• Shahana Goswami
• Sharmila Mandre (Kannada)
• Sharmilee
• Shakeela (Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam)
• Shamita Shetty (Tamil, Telugu, Hindi)
• Sharmila Tagore (Hindi, Bengali)
• Shashikala (Tamil)
• Sherin (Tamil)
• Sherlyn Chopra (Mona Chopra)
• Shilpa Shetty (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada)
• Shilpa Shirodkar (Hindi)
• Shilpa Anand
• Shweta Tiwari (tv serial)
• Shobhana (Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada)
• Shobhna Samarth
• Shraddha Kapoor
• Shruthi K. Haasan (Tamil, Hindi)
• Shruti (Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam)
• Shriya Saran (Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, English)
• Shubha Poonja (Kannada)
• Shyama (Khurshid Akhtar) (Hindi)
• Simi Garewal
• Simone Singh
• Simple Kaur
• Simran (Now Simran Bagga) (Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam)
• Sindhu
• Sindhu Tolani (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada)
• Sindhu Menon (Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam)
• Silk Smitha (Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi)
• Smita Patil
• Smriti Irani (Smriti Malhotra)
• Sneha Ullal (Hindi, Telugu)
• Sneha (Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil)
• Soha Ali Khan (Hindi)
• Sonakshi Sinha (Hindi)
• Sonali Bendre (Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada)
• Sonal Chauhan
• Sonam (actress)
• Sonam Kapoor
• Sonali Kulkarni (Marathi, Hindi, Tamil)
• Sonia Agarwal (Tamil, Telugu)
• Sonu (Kannada)
• Sophia Chaudhary
• Soundarya (Teluguu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi)
• Sridevi (Now Sridevi Kapoor) (Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil)
• Srividya
• Sripriya
• Subbulakshmi
• Suchitra Krishnamurthy (Hindi, Malayalam)
• Suchitra Sen (Hindi,Bengali)
• Sudha Chandran (Hindi, Telugu)
• Suhasini (Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil)
• Sukirti Kandpal (Dill Mill Gayye, Jersey no. 10)
• Sulakshana Pandit
• Sulochana Devi (Hindi, Marathi)
• Sumalatha (Telugu, Kannada)
• Suman Ranganathan
• Sunaina(Tamil,Malayalam,Kannada,Telugu)
• Supriya Pathak
• Suraiya
• Sushmita Sen (Hindi, Tamil)
• Sushma Reddy
• Sumalatha
• Swapna
• Swastika Mukherjee (Bengali)
• Sandhya (Hindi)
• Swetha Menon (Malayalam)
• Shriya Sharma (Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Advertisements, TV shows etc. )

T

• Tabu (Telugu, Tamil, Hindi)
• Tamannaah Bhatia (Tamil, Telugu)
• Tanisha (Hindi, Tamil)
• Tanushree Dutta
• Tanuja
• Tanvi Azmi
• Tanvi Verma
• Tina Munim (Now Tina Ambani)
• Tisca Chopra
• Trisha Krishnan (Tamil, Telugu, Hindi)
• Tulip Joshi
• Tun Tun
• Twinkle Khanna
• Trisha (Tamil, Telugu, Hindi)
• Tara (Assamese, Manipuri, Punjabi, Hindi)
• Tara (Kannada, Hindi)

U

• Udita Goswami (Hindi)
• Ujjwala Raut
• Umashree (Kannada)
• Urmila Matondkar (Hindi, Tamil)
• Urvashi Sharma
• Usha Kiran
• Udaya Bhanu

V

• Vaishali Desai
• Varalakshmi(Telugu)
• Vaishnavi Mahant
• Vasundhara Das
• Veena (Tajour Sultana) (Hindi)
• Vedhika
• Vidhubala
• Vidya Balan(Hindi, Tamil, Bengali)
• Vidya Sinha
• Vineetha
• Vijayashanti (Telugu, Hindi, Tamil)
• Vyjayantimala (Now Vyjayantimala Bali)

W

• Waheeda Rehman

Y

• Yogeeta Bali
• Yana Gupta

Z

• Zarina Wahab
• Zarine Khan
• Zeenat Aman
• Zeba Bakhtiyar

See also

• Indian film actors