Kalki Koechlin Biography

Kalki Koechlin 

Date of Birth

9 January 1983, Pondicherry, India 

Mini Biography

Kalki was born to French parents in a small village in Pondicherry. Her parents had come to India as hippies 38 years ago and settled there after they fell in love with the country. Her parents are devotees of Sri Aurobindo.

Kalki was studying in Ooty when her parents insisted her to attend university. Kalki studied drama and theatre in Goldsmiths, University of London, where she also worked with a theatre company called Theatre of Relativity for two years. She performed in various plays like David Hare's The Blue Room, Marivaux's The Dispute and a devised play The Rise of the Wild Hunt in her two year stint with the theatre group

Kalki later decided to move to Mumbai to try her luck in Indian Cinema. She was doing modeling assignments for Television commercials before being shortlisted for the role of Chandramukhi (Chanda) in Dev.D. Kalki can speak Tamil, English and French while she had to learn Hindi to prepare for her role in Dev.D. Kalki was apprehensive about how people will judge her after seeing her in the role.

She won The Hindu metro playwright award 2009 along with Prashant Prakash for their co-authored entry 'Skeleton Woman.' She had also acted in the play "Hair" directed by Ajaykrishnan

IMDb Mini Biography By: chakpak 

Spouse

Anurag Kashyap (30 April 2011 - present)