Kalki Koechlin is an Indian actress of French descent who debuted in Anurag Kashyap’s critically acclaimed 2009 Hindi film Dev.D. She played the character of Chandramukhi in Dev.D, which is a modern take on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s Bengali novella Devdas.

Koechlin 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.
Koechlin was studying in Ooty when her parents insisted she attend university. Koechlin 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

Movies Done By Kalki Koechlin

2007 Laaga Chunari Mein Daag Cameo appearance
2009 Dev.D Chandramukhi Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress
2010 The Film Emotional Atyachar Sophie
2010 That Girl in Yellow Boots Ruth Edscer
2011 Shaitan Amrita “Amy” Jayshankar
2011 Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara Natasha Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress
2011 My Friend Pinto Maggie
2011 Trishna Herself Cameo appearance
2012 Shanghai Shalini Sahay
2013 Ek Thi Daayan Lisa Dutt
2013 Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani Aditi Mehra Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress
2014 Happy Ending Vishakha
2015 Margarita with a Straw Laila National Film Award – Special Jury Award
2015 Waiting Tara Deshpande
2015 Un plus une Herself Cameo appearance
2015 Kaash Elsbeth Cameo appearance
2016 Freedom Matters Herself Documentary film
2016 Living Shakespeare Herself BBC Documentary film
2016 A Death in the Gunj Mimi
2016 Mantra Piya Kapoor
2017 Naked Sandy Short film
2017 Jia Aur Jia Jia
2017 Ribbon Sahana Mehra
2017 The Thought of You Short film
2017 Azmaish: A Journey Through the Subcontinent Herself Documentary film
2018 The Job Nominated in Filmfare Short Films Awards
2019 Gully Boy Shweta/Sky
2019 CandyFlip Emily
2019 Nerkonda Paarvai Herself Tamil film debut; Cameo appearance
2019 Scholarship Film has yet to be released Emily Johnson Filming

Television Series Done By Kalki Koechlin

2015 Man’s World Cameo appearance
2016 Kalki’s Great Escape Herself/ Host 8 episodes
2016 Shockers Episode:”Home At Last”
2018 Smoke Tara Main cast; 11 episodes
2019 Made in Heaven Faiza Main cast; 9 episodes
2019 Sacred Games Batya Main cast; season 2
2019 Bhram Alisa Web series by ZEE5