Career
She acted in over two hundred Bengali language films and over two thousand stage shows. She started as an actress in the Bengali film industry based in Kolkata"s Tollygunge since 1938. Her first role was as a child artiste when she was six years old in Ahutee directed by Dhiren Ganguly.
She has been associated with All India Radio since 1954, and enacted character roles in radio plays.
However, her last play was Badsahi Chaal (1996), which was directed by Ganesh Mukherjee, and was staged at the Rangana theatre in north Kolkata. She acted diverse roles in a wide variety of films, and is known for her versatile outlook in her many roles.
Her acting even caught the attention of the legendary Laurence Olivier. Throughout her long career, she worked with directors like Sisir Bhaduri, Ritwik Ghatak, Debaki Bose and Satyajit Ray.
She also acted in a Bollywood musical based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay"s, starring Saif Ali Khan and Vidya Balan.
Dey died on 17 January 2011 in Kolkata, aged 79.