# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/seema-biswas
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:49:26.576Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/seema-biswas"
name: "Seema Biswas"
slug: "seema-biswas"
description: "Seema Biswas is an Indian actress who works in Hindi films and the theatre. She gained prominence after playing the role of Phoolan Devi in Shekhar Kapur's film Bandit Queen (1994), for which she won the National Film Award for Best Actress. She won the 2000 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award and the 2006 Best Actress Genie Award for her role as Shakuntala in Deepa Mehta's Water (2005). Her other mainstream films include Khamoshi: The Musical (1996), for which she won the Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress, Bhoot (2003), Vivah (2006) and Half Girlfriend (2017). In addition to films, Biswas has appeared in many television shows, most recently, The Family Man."
tagline: "Indian actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Seema_Biswas_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1965-01-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           21.121964
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump