Anna Kashfi

Anna Kashfi fascinates me precisely because history filed her under someone else's name. Born in Calcutta with an Anglo-Indian background and raised there until the family moved to Cardiff, she had a real, if brief, 1950s Hollywood run, yet the record fixates on her stormy marriage to Marlon Brando and the bitter custody saga over their son. I find that framing a little unjust. There is a person here who crossed continents and screens on her own terms before becoming a footnote to a legend. I would rather remember the actress who walked onto those sets herself than the wife defined by the man she stood beside.

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Name (English)

Anna Kashfi

Name (Japanese)

アンナ・カシュフィ

Reading

あんな・かしゅふぃ

Born

September 30, 1934 – August 16, 2015

Origin

Darjeeling, West Bengal, India

Occupation

actor / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Dog

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Kashfi
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q534436

Tags

• West Bengal
• actor
• film actor

Last updated

September 28, 2026

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