Shweta Basu Prasad

Shweta Basu Prasad (born 11 January 1991) is an Indian film actress. She started her career as a child actress in Hindi films and television series and went on to play lead roles in Bengali, Telugu and Tamil cinema. For her performance in the 2002 film Makdee, she won the National Film Award for Best Child Artist.

Shweta Basu Prasad was born in Jamshedpur on January 11, 1991 in Jharkhand and later migrated with her family to Bombay (present-day Mumbai) when she was a child.^[1] Her father Anuj Prasad is from Bihar while her mother Sarmishta Basu Prasad is from West Bengal.

Shweta's grandfather retired as a chief operating officer in Intelligence Bureau, New Delhi. Her father Anuj is a direction and acting diploma holder from Shreeram Centre, New Delhi. They later settled in Jamshedpur, where he married Shweta's mother, musician and writer Sarmistha, after 1 year's courtship in 1990, and they had Shweta the following year.

Shweta studied commerce in the R. N. Podar High School, Santacruz, Mumbai, and completed her graduation in mass media and journalism. She wrote columns for Indian Express 

She added her mother's maiden name Basu to her screen name, and married filmmaker Rohit Mittal on 13 December 2018. She announced their separation on Instagram on 10 December 2019.