Swatilekha Sengupta was a well-known Bengali actor in the theatre industry and recently in the film industry. She is known for the movies Barof, Bela Seshe, Ghare Baire and more.
Sengupta started her career as a theatre artist in Allahabad in the early 1970s. She joined the theatre group Nandikar in 1978. In that group, she worked under the director Rudraprasad Sengupta whom she later married. Rudraprasad Sengupta is an actor, director and cultural critic.