Uttara Baokar
Date of birth: 1944-08-05
Place of birth: Kolhapur, Kolhapur State, British India
Known for: Acting
Also known as: उत्तरा बावकर
Biography
Uttara Baokar was an Indian stage, film, and television actress. She acted in several notable plays, such as Padmavati in 'Mukyhamantri', Mena in 'Mena Gurjari', Desdemona in Shakespeare's 'Othello', the mother in playwright Girish Karnad's 'Tughlaq', the nautch girl in 'Chhote Saiyad Bade Saiyad', and the lead role of Umrao in 'Umrao Jaan'. In 1978, she directed Jaywant Dalvi's play 'Sandhya Chhaya', translated to Hindi by Kusum Kumar. In 1984, she won the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Acting (Hindi theatre). She appeared in Marathi films such as 'Doghi' (1995), 'Uttarayan' (2005), 'Shevri' (2006), and 'Restaurant' (2006). Description above from the Wikipedia article Uttara Baokar, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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