Madhur Jaffrey
Indian-American actress, food and travel writer, and television personality · India · On the map · Actors · Born 1933 · age 93
Madhur Jaffrey CBE is an actress, cookbook and travel writer, and television personality. She is recognized for bringing Indian cuisine to the western hemisphere with her debut cookbook, An Invitation to Indian Cooking (1973), which was inducted into the James Beard Foundation's Cookbook Hall of Fame in 2006.
Madhur Jaffrey is read about 317 times a day, in 26 languages.
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And Just Like That…Series, Seema's Mom2020
The GloriasFilm, Bookstore Host2018
I Feel BadSeries, Maya Kamala2013
JadooFilm, Herself2011
New GirlSeries, Nana2008
Phoebe in WonderlandFilm, Miss Reiter2006
Hiding DivyaFilm, Divya Shah2005
A Tribute To Ismail MerchantFilm2001
Law & Order: Criminal IntentSeries, Professor
Chutney PopcornFilm, 2001Meenu2000
MasterChef USASeries1996
The Peacock SpringFilm, Lady Srinevasan1995
In Julia's Kitchen with Master ChefsSeries1993The Mushroom PickerSeries
Six Degrees of SeparationFilm, 1993Guest of Honor1986Sunday PremiereSeries, Shahina
Love MatchFilm, 1986Shahina1984
The Wandering CompanyFilm1983
Heat and DustFilm, Begum Mussarat Jahan1982
WoganSeries1975
Autobiography of a PrincessFilm, The Princess1966
AntkeeperFilm, Bruja1964
ParableFilm, The Magician's Assistant1933Born13 August 1933People around Madhur
James Ivory Directed Heat and Dust and Shakespeare Wallah
Ismail Merchant Produced Heat and Dust and Shakespeare Wallah
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Wrote Shakespeare Wallah (1965)
Nisha Ganatra Directed Chutney Popcorn and Cosmopolitan
Wallace Shawn Also in Vanya on 42nd Street and A Late Quartet
Shashi Kapoor Also in Shakespeare Wallah (1965)
Greta Scacchi Madhur directed Cotton Mary (1999)
Utpal Dutt Also in Shakespeare Wallah (1965)- Nadira Also in The Guru, Saagar and Cotton Mary
Richard Robbins Wrote Heat and Dust and The Perfect Murder
Robert De Niro Produced Flawless (2000)
Philip Seymour Hoffman Also in Flawless and A Late Quartet
Zooey Deschanel Directed New Girl
Matt Shakman Directed New Girl
Oz Perkins Also in Wolf and Six Degrees of Separation
Larry Charles Directed New Girl
Barry Foster Also in Heat and Dust and The Guru
Andrew Fleming Directed New Girl
Lorene Scafaria Directed New Girl
Douglas Wick Produced Wolf (1994)
Jason Winer Directed New Girl
Daniel Barnz Directed Phoebe in Wonderland (2013)
Michael Spiller Directed New Girl
Troy Miller Directed New Girl
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Phoebe in Wonderland 2008
A Late Quartet 2012
Vanya on 42nd Street 1994
The Glorias 2020
Six Degrees of Separation 1993
Filmography 30
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She has written over a dozen cookbooks and appeared on several related television programmes, the most notable of which was Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cookery, which premiered in the UK in 1982. She was the food consultant at the now-closed Dawat, which was considered by many food critics to be among the best Indian restaurants in New York City.
