She was born and brought up in Calcutta. Entered in the film industry at a very young age as a 4 year old in the classic "Rebecca" inspired film "Kuheli", the Bengali pre-cursor to the later Hindi hit "Kohra"
Roy was very successful in Bengali Film industry. In the Indian epic Mahabharata,directed by B.R.Chopra-she portrayed the role of Satyavati,second wife of King Shantanu of Hastinapur,step mother of Ganga putra Bheeshma alias Devavrata played by Mukesh Khanna,and mother of Chitrangada and Vichitravirya.
She was married to Bengali actor Prasenjit Chatterjee (son of Biswajit, Bengali and Hindi film hero of the 60's & 70's) for a brief period.
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