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    Sharmila Tagore is an Indian film actress who has received two National Film Awards and two Filmfare Awards. She led the Indian Film Censor Board from 2004 to 2011 and was chosen as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 2005. She also served as a jury member at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Tagore was born in Hyderabad to an Assamese father and Bengali mother and is descended from notable personalities such as Rabindranath Tagore. She attended school in Asansol but did not continue her higher education.

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    Sharmila Tagore is an Indian film actress who has received two National Film Awards and two Filmfare Awards. She led the Indian Film Censor Board from 2004 to 2011 and was chosen as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 2005. She also served as a jury member at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Tagore was born in Hyderabad to an Assamese father and Bengali mother and is descended from notable personalities such as Rabindranath Tagore. She attended school in Asansol but did not continue her higher education.

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    Sharmila Tagore is an Indian film actress who has received two National Film Awards and two Filmfare Awards. She led the Indian Film Censor Board from 2004 to 2011 and was chosen as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 2005. She also served as a jury member at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Tagore was born in Hyderabad to an Assamese father and Bengali mother and is descended from notable personalities such as Rabindranath Tagore. She attended school in Asansol but did not continue her higher education.

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    Sharmila Tagore (also known as Begum Ayesha Sultana) (born 8 December 1944) is an Indian

    film actress known for her works predominantly in Hindi cinema. She has received two National
    Film Awards and two Filmfare Awards for her performances.
    She has led the Indian Film Censor Board from October 2004 till March 2011. In December 2005
    she was chosen as an UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.[1] She was one of the International
    Competition's Jury Member at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. In 2013, she was awarded Padma
    Bhushan by the Government of India.[2]

    Early life[edit]
    Tagore was born in Hyderabad State to Ira Baruah, an Assamese and Gitindranath Tagore,
    a Bengali.
    Tagore's mother, Ira Baruah, was the daughter of J Baruah, the founder Principal of Earl Law
    College (now Government Law College) in Guwahati and her grandfather Gunabhiram Baruah
    led the fight against the tradition of child marriage and worked for promotion of widow marriage
    and women education in Assam.[3][4] Tagore's paternal grandmother Latika Tagore was the
    granddaughter of Rabindranath Tagore's brother, Dwijendranath Tagore.[5][6]
    Tagore's father Gitindranath Tagore, was then deputy general manager of the East India
    Company owner of Elgin Mills.[7] Her father was the son of Kanakendranath Tagore. [7] Her great
    grand father was the actor and artist Gaganendranath Tagore [7] and great grand uncle the
    painter Abanindranath Tagore.[7] One of Tagore's very early paternal ancestors was an uncle to
    the poet and Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore.[7]
    Tagore was the eldest child and had two sisters, late Oindrila Kunda [Tinku Tagore] and Romila
    Tagore [Chinky]. Tinku was an international bridge player and also acted in the role of Mini, the
    child star in Tapan Sinha's cinema Kabuliwala of 1957.[7][8]
    Tagore attended St. John's Diocesan Girls' Higher Secondary School and Loreto Convent,
    Asansol.[9] Tagore did not continue her education and quit studies due to attendance
    requirements at the college.[10]

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