Shilpa Shukla

What I respect most about Shilpa Shukla is that she never took the easy glamour route. A University of Delhi graduate from Bihar's Vaishali district, she made her mark with a tough role in Chak De! India and then went all in on the neo-noir B.A. Pass, earning the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress. Bollywood is often caricatured as song-and-dance spectacle, but Shukla shines in shadowed, morally complicated characters, and she keeps one foot firmly in theatre. That commitment to craft over crowd-pleasing tells me everything. She's the kind of performer I trust to make a bold choice, and I'm genuinely curious what she does next.

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Name (English)

Shilpa Shukla

Name (Japanese)

シルパ・シュクラ

Reading

しるぱ・しゅくら

Born

February 22, 1982 (age 44)

Origin

Vaishali district, India

Occupation

actor / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dog

University

University of Delhi

Awards & achievements

• Filmfare Awards

• Official sitehttps://www.shilpashukla.in/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shilpa%20Shukla
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7496769

Tags

• Vaishali district
• actor
• film actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.