1. Nandana Dev Sen is an Indian-born American actress, screenwriter, children's author, and child-rights activist.
23 Facts About Nandana Sen
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Nandana Sen's elder sister Antara Dev Sen is a journalist.
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Nandana Sen spent few years of her childhood in Delhi and London.
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Nandana Sen's first piece of writing was published when she was a child in the magazine Sandesh, selected by Satyajit Ray.
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Nandana Sen spent her formative years in various cities across Europe, India and America.
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Nandana Sen studied literature at Harvard University, where she was awarded the Detur Prize in her first year for topping her class, and thereafter won both the John Harvard Scholarship and the Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Award for Academic Achievement of the Highest Distinction.
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Subsequently, Nandana Sen studied Film Producing at the Peter Stark Producing Program at the USC Film School.
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Nandana Sen wrote and directed various short films, including her thesis film "Arranged Marriage" which was shown at multiple film festivals.
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Nandana Sen, who is the Child Protection Ambassador for Save the Children India, was Smile Ambassador for the global children's NGO Operation Smile, UNICEF India's National Celebrity for Child Protection and against Gender Based Violence, and Cause Ambassador for RAHI.
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Nandana Sen is a Director for the Women's Refuge Commission, New York, serving on its Program and Advocacy Committee.
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Nandana Sen has been actively fighting to stop the crisis of child trafficking in India, both with organizations such as the NCPCR and the Terre des hommes foundation as well as addressing this topic in cinema.
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Nandana Sen has been invited to speak on the cause of child protection in international conferences, including the Global Call to Action Summit for Child Survival and Development organized by USAID and the International Comprehensive Cleft Care Conference of 2013.
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Nandana Sen has starred in over 20 feature films from various countries and in various languages.
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Nandana Sen was first seen on Indian screens as Rani Mukerji's younger sister in Sanjay Leela Bhasali's award-winning film Black.
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Nandana Sen followed this by signing lead roles opposite Salman Khan in the bilingual Hollywood-Bollywood film Marigold, and Vivek Oberoi in Prince, at the same time playing the protagonist in unconventional but acclaimed films such as Strangers and The Forest.
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In 2007, Nandana Sen signed on to portray a young rebellious woman fleeing from law authorities in director Shamim Sarif's lesbian-themed period drama The World Unseen.
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In 2010, Nandana Sen starred in the Bengali super-hit Autograph, for which she was awarded the TeleCine Award for Best Actress and the Reliance BIG Bangla Rising Star Award.
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Nandana Sen, whose professional choices have included a tenure as a literary editor at Houghton Mifflin Company, and as Princess Jasmine in Disneyland, is a children's book author, a screenwriter, a maker of short films, and a published writer in multiple genres, including poetry, narrative non-fiction, and Op Eds.
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Nandana Sen writes a fiction series for The Wire entitled Youthquake[4].
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Currently Nandana Sen is completing the next book in her bestselling Mambi the Marvel series.
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Nandana Sen is working on a multigenerational memoir entitled Mother Tongues, which grew from her essays "Shamelessly Female",.
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Nandana Sen married John Makinson, Chairman of Penguin Random House, in June 2013.
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Nandana Sen was previously in a relationship with Indian film producer, Madhu Mantena, for over a decade.