KALKI KOECHLIN ,FRENCH ANCESTRY ACTRESS
BORN 1983 JANUARY 10
Kalki Koechlin
Born January 10, 1983 in Pondicherry, India
Height 5' 5½" (1.66 m)
Mini Bio (1)
Kalki Koechlin was born to French parents in a small village in Pondicherry. Her parents had come to India as hippies in the 1970s and settled there after they fell in love with the country. Her parents are devotees of Sri Aurobindo.
Kalki was studying in Ooty when her parents insisted that she attend university. She studied drama and theatre at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she also worked with a theater company called Theatre of Relativity for two years. She performed in various plays, including David Hare's "The Blue Room," Marivaux's "The Dispute," and a devised play called "The Rise of the Wild Hunt" during her two-year stint with the theater group.
Kalki later decided to move to Mumbai to try her luck in Indian cinema. She was doing modeling assignments for television commercials before being shortlisted for the role of Chandramukhi (Chanda) in Dev.D (2009). Kalki, who can speak Tamil, English, and French, had to learn Hindi to prepare for her role in Dev.D (2009). She was apprehensive about how people would judge her after seeing her in the role.
She won The Hindu's 2009 MetroPlus Playwright Award, along with Prashant Prakash, for their co-authored entry "Skeleton Woman." Kalki also acted in the play "Hair" directed by Ajay Krishnan.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: chakpak
Spouse (1)
Anurag Kashyap (30 April 2011 - 2015) (divorced)
Trivia (5)
Koechlin speaks Tamil, English, French, and Hindi.
She is a descendant of Maurice Koechlin (1856-1946), a Swiss structural engineer who, as the managing director of Gustave Eiffel's Compagnie des Establissments Eiffel, contributed to the construction of the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty.
Began a relationship with director Anurag Kashyap after the first film they worked on together, Dev.D (2009), was released. They were married in April 2011. In November 2013, Koechlin and Kashyap issued a joint statement announcing they were separating. In May 2015, they divorced.
She won the Best Supporting Actress at the Global Indian Film and TV Awards in 2012 for the role she played in Shaitan (2011).
Younger brother named Oriel.
Filmography[edit source]
 | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Dev.D | Chandramukhi | Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| 2010 | The Film Emotional Atyachar | Sophie | |
| 2010 | That Girl in Yellow Boots | Ruth Edscer | |
| 2011 | Shaitan | Amrita "Amy" Jayshankar | |
| 2011 | Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara | Natasha | Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| 2011 | My Friend Pinto | Maggie | |
| 2011 | Trishna | Herself | Cameo appearance[224] |
| 2012 | Shanghai | Shalini Sahay | |
| 2013 | Ek Thi Daayan | Lisa Dutt | |
| 2013 | Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani | Aditi Mehra | Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| 2014 | Happy Ending | Vishakha | |
| 2015 | Margarita with a Straw | Laila | National Film Award – Special Jury Award |
| 2015 | Waiting | Tara Deshpande | |
| 2015 | Un plus une | Herself | Cameo appearance[225] |
| 2015 | Kaash | Elsbeth | Cameo appearance[226] |
| 2016 | Freedom Matters | Herself | Documentary film |
| 2016 | Living Shakespeare | Herself | BBC Documentary film |
| 2016 | A Death in the Gunj | Mimi | |
| 2016 | Mantra | Piya Kapoor | |
| 2017 | Naked | Sandy | Short film[227] |
| 2017 | Jia Aur Jia | Jia | |
| 2017 | Ribbon | Sahana Mehra | |
| 2017 | The Thought of You | Short film | |
| 2017 | Scholarship | Emily Johnson | Filming[130] |
| 2017 | Azmaish – Trials of Life | Filming[129] |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Man's World | Cameo appearance | |
| 2016 | Kalki's Great Escape | Herself/ Host[228] | 8 episodes[229] |
| 2016 | Shockers | Episode:"Home At Last"[230] | |
| 2017 | Smoke | Post-production[231] |
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