Born on 18 September 1950 in New Delhi, India, Shabana Azmi is one of the main female actors who dominated the films of the so-called "Parallel Cinema" in India in the 1970s and 1980s. She is a film actress and social activist. Shabana has acted in films by virtually all of India's most famous arthouse directors including Shyam Benegal, Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Aparna Sen and others.
Her performances in films in a variety of genres have generally earned her praise and awards including five wins of the National Film Award for Best Actress. She is married to Indian poet and screenwriter Javed Akhtar.
Shabana Azmi completed a graduate degree in Psychology from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, and followed it with a course in Acting at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune.
List of Movies
1974 - Ishk Ishk Ishk (Cast: Dev Anand, Zeenat Aman, Kabir Bedi, Premnath, Nadira)
1974 - Parinay (Cast: Romesh Sharma, Preeti Ganguly, Krishnakant)
1976 - Fakira (Cast: Sashi Kapoor, Madan Puri, Dany Dengzongpa, Aruna Irani)
1977 - Aadha Din Aadhi Raat (Cast: Vinod Khanna, Asha Parekh, Prem Chopra, Jaishri T, Jalal Agha)
1977 - Amar Akbar Anthony (Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, Parveen Babi, Neetu Singh, Pran, Nirupa Roy, Jeevan)
1977 - KARM (Cast: Rajesh Khanna, Vidya Sinha, Asrani)
1977 - Parvarish (Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Amzad Khan, Shammi Kapoor, Vinod Khanna, Neetu Singh)
1977 - Swami (Cast: Girish Karnad, Vikram, Shashikala, Utpal Dutt, Dheeraj Kumar, Preeti Ganguli)
1978 - Devata (Cast: Sanjeev Kumar, Danny, Sarika, Rakesh Roshan, Keshto Mukherjee)
1978 - Khoon Ki Pukar (Cast: Vinod Khanna, Aruna Irani, Roopesh Kumar, Amzad Khan, Pran)
1978 - LAHU KE DO RANG (Cast: Vinod Khanna, Danny, Helen, Indrani Mukherjee, Ranjit, Prema Narayan, Goga Kapoor)
1978 - Toote Khilone (Cast: Shekhar Kapoor, Utpal Dutt, Urmila Bhatt)
1980 - Apne Paraye (Cast: Amol Palekar, Girish Karnad, Bharati Achrekar, Utpal Dutt, Ashalata, Manik Dutt)
1980 - Ek Baar Kaho (Cast: Navin Nischal, Rajendranath, Dilip Dhawan, Kiran Vairale, Suresh Oberoi)
1980 - SPARSH (Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri)
1980 - Thodi Si Bewafai (Cast: Rajesh Khanna, Padmini Kolhapure, Dr Shreeram Lagoo, Deven Varma, A K Hangal, Asrani)
1982 - Arth (Cast: Smita Patil, Kulbhushan Kharbanda)
1982 - Ashanti (Cast: Rajesh Khanna, Zeenat Aman, Mithun Chakraborty, Parveen Babi, Kanwaljeet)
1982 - Masoom (Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Saeed Jaffrey, Supriya Pathak, Jugal Hansraj, Urmila Matondkar)
1982 - Sweekar Kiya Maine (Cast: Vinod Mehra)
1982 - Yeh Nazdeekiyan (Cast: Parveen Babi, Marc Zuber)
1983 - Avtaar (Cast: Rajesh Khanna)
1984 - Bhavna (Cast: Marc Zuber)
1984 - Gangvaa (Cast: Shabana Azmi, Rajnikant)
1984 - Lorie (Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Swaroop Sampat, Rohini Hattangadi, B L Chopra )
1984 - Rahi Badal Gaye (Cast: Rishi Kapoor, Padmini Kolhapure, Shakti Kapoor, Suresh Oberoi)
1985 - EK PAL (Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Farooque Sheikh, Dr Shreeram Lagoo, Deena Pathak, Sreela Mazumdar)
1986 - Anjuman (Cast: Farooque Sheikh, Rohini Hattangadi, Shaukat Azmi, Yunus Parvez )
1989 - Oonch Neech Beech (Cast: Sanjeev Kumar, Shashi Kapoor)
1990 - Amba (Cast: Anil Kapoor)
1996 - Libaas (Cast: Raj Babbar, Naseeruddin Shah)
1997 - Bada Din (Cast: Tara Deshpande, Marc Robinson, Alok Nath)
1997 - Mrityu Dand (Cast: Ayub Khan, Om Puri, Madhuri Dixit)
1999 - Godmother (Cast: Milind Gunaji)
2002 - Makdee (Cast: Makrand Deshpande, Shweta)
2003 - Tehzeeb (Cast: Urmila Matondkar, Arjun Rampal, Diya Mirza, Rishi Kapoor)
2004 - Morning Raga (Cast: Lilete Dubey, Prakash Rao, Perizaad Zorabian)
2006 - Umrao Jaan (Cast: Aishwarya Rai, Abhishek Bachchan, Sunil Shetty, Arshad Warsi, Divya Dutta)
2007 - Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. (Cast: Amisha Patel, Kay Kay Menon, Sandhya Mridul, Boman Irani, Diya Mirza, Abhay Deol, Minissha Lamba, Raima Sen, Ranvir Shorey, Karan Khanaa, Vikram Chatwal, Arjun Rampal)
2008 - Sorry Bhai (Cast: Sanjay Suri, Boman Irani, Chitrangda Singh, Sharman Joshi)
Aayesha Takia | Aditi Gowariker | Aishwarya Rai | Amisha Patel | Amrita Arora | Amrita Rao | Antara Mali | Anushka Sharma | Asha Parekh | Asin | Bhoomika Chawla | Bipasha Basu | Celina Jaitley | Deepika Padukone | Deepti Bhatnagar | Diana Hayden | Dimple Kapadia | Divya Bharati | Diya Mirza | Esha Deol | Freida Pinto | Gauri Karnik | Gayatri Joshi | Genelia Dsouza | Gracy Singh | Hema Malini | Hrishita Bhatt | Isha Koppikar | Jaya Bachchan | Jiah Khan | Juhi Babbar | Juhi Chawla | Kajol | Kangna Ranaut | Kareena Kapoor | Karishma Kapoor | Kashmira Shah | Katrina Kaif | Kim Sharma | Kirti Reddy | Koena Mitra | Konkona Sen | Lara Dutta | Madhubala | Madhuri Dixit | Mahima Chaudhary | Mala Sinha | Malaika Arora | Mallika Sherawat | Mandakini | Mandira Bedi | Manisha Koirala | Meena Kumari | Meenakshi Seshadhri | Minisha Lambaa | Mumtaz | Namrata Shirodkar | Nandita Das | Nargis | Neetu Singh | Neha | Neha Dhupia | Nigar Khan | Nutan | Parveen Babi | Payal Rohatgi | Perizaad Zorabia | Pooja Batra | Pooja Bedi | Pooja Bhatt | Poonam Dhillon | Prachi Desai | Preeti Jhangiani | Preity Zinta | Priya Gill | Priyanka Chopra | Raima Sen | Rakhee | Rambha | Rani Mukherjee | Raveena Tandon | Reema Sen | Rekha | Rimi Sen | Rinke Khanna | Riya Sen | Sadhana | Sameera Reddy | Sandali Sinha | Shabana Azmi | Shamita Shetty | Sharmila Tagore | Shilpa Shetty | Shweta Menon | Smita Patil | Soha Ali Khan | Sonal Chauhan | Sonali Bendre | Sonali Kulkarni | Sonam Kapoor | Sridevi | Suman Ranganathan | Sushmita Sen | Tabu | Tanisha Mukherjee | Tanushree Dutta | Tara Sharma | Tina Munim | Twinkle Khanna | Udita Goswami | Urmila Matondkar | Vaijantimala | Vidya Balan | Waheeda Rehman | Zeenat Aman