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Madhur Jaffrey is a Actor and Director Indian born on 13 august 1933 at Delhi (Inde)

Madhur Jaffrey

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Birth name Madhur Bahadur
Nationality Inde
Birth 13 august 1933 (90 years) at Delhi (Inde)
Awards Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Madhur Jaffrey is an Indian-born actress, food and travel writer, and television personality. She is recognized for bringing Indian cuisine to the Western world 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. She has authored over a dozen cookbooks and appeared on several related television programs, the most notable of which was Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cookery, which premiered in the United Kingdom in 1982. She is the food consultant at Dawat, considered by many food critics to be among the best Indian restaurants in New York City.

She played an instrumental part in bringing together film makers James Ivory and Ismail Merchant and acted in several of their Merchant Ivory Productions films such as Shakespeare Wallah (1965), for which she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress award at the 15th Berlin International Film Festival. She has appeared in dramas on stage, radio and television.

In 2004 she was named an honorary Commander of the British Empire in recognition of her services to cultural relations between the United Kingdom, India and the United States, through her achievements in film, television and cookery.

In 2006 she released a memoir of her childhood in India during the final years of the British Raj, Climbing the Mango Trees.

Biography

She was born Madhur Bahadur in Delhi, British India, and was educated at Miranda House (of the University of Delhi). After college, she worked for All India Radio. She then attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), from which she graduated with honors in 1957. She then met and married Indian actor Saeed Jaffrey and moved to New York City. She and Saeed divorced in 1965. They have three daughters, Meera, Zia and Sakina Jaffrey. In 1969, she married Sanford Allen, a violinist with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. She is the aunt of the British journalist Rohit Jaggi and his sister the literary critic Maya Jaggi (their mother Lalit being one of Madhur's older sisters).

Usually with

Ismail Merchant
(6 films)

James Ivory
(4 films)

Walter Lassally
(3 films)

Nisha Ganatra
(2 films)

Saeed Jaffrey
(4 films)

Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Madhur Jaffrey (24 films)

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Year	Name	Job	Roles
2017	The Only Living Boy in New York	Actress
2013	Jadoo	Actress	Herself
2012	A Late Quartet	Actress	Dr. Nadir
2009	Today's Special	Actress	Farrida
2008	Phoebe in Wonderland	Actress	Miss Reiter
2007	Partition	Actress	Shanti Singh
2005	ABCD	Actress
2005	Prime	Actress	Rita
2003	Cosmopolitan	Actress	Madhu
2001	Chutney Popcorn	Actress	Meenu
1999	Cotton Mary	Actress, Director	Cotton Mary
1999	Flawless	Actress	Dr. Nirmala
1999	ABCD	Actress	Anju
1994	Wolf	Actress	Party Guest
1994	Vanya on 42nd Street	Actress	Mrs. Chao
1993	Six Degrees of Separation	Actress	Guest of Honor
1988	The Perfect Murder	Actress	Mrs. Lal
1985	The Assam Garden	Actress	Ruxmani
1985	Saagar	Actress	Kamladevi (Ravi's grandma)
1983	Heat and Dust	Actress	Begum Mussarat Jahan
1975	Autobiography of a Princess	Actress	The Princess
1969	The Guru	Actress	Begum Sahiba
1965	Shakespeare-Wallah	Actress	Manjula
1964	Parable	Actress	The Magician's Assistant