Riya Sen Biography, Wiki, Age, Height, Career, Photos

Riya Sen Biography, Wiki, Age, Height, Career, Photos: Riya Sen, a well-known Indian actress, and model were born in Kolkata. Her family includes her grandmother Suchitra Sen Mother Moon Moon Sen, and sister Raima Sen. In 1991, she began her acting career as a child actress in “Vishkanya.” Style (2001), a low-budget Hindi comedy film, was her first commercial success. Her notable films include Musical Film, Jhankar Beats, and Shaadi No. 1.

Riya Sen Biography

Riya was born in Kolkata, West Bengal on 24 January 1981. She is the daughter and granddaughter of Moon Sen, an actress who died in 2011. Before moving to Mumbai, Riya lived in Kolkata, West Bengal, with her sister Raima Sen and her parents. Her father, Bharat DevVarma, is a Tripura royal. Her paternal grandmother Ila Devi, who was a princess from Cooch Behar and whose younger sister Gayatri Devi became the Maharani at Jaipur, was her paternal grandfather.

Indira, her paternal great-grandmother, was the only child of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad I of Baroda. Riya’s maternal great grandfather Adinath Sen, a prominent Kolkata businessman and a relative to former Union Law Minister Ashoke Kumar Sen, was the Diwan (or a Minister) of the Maharaja in Tripura. Although their official papers bear the surname Dev Varma, their screen credits credit the sisters under their mother’s maiden names.

Riya attended Loreto School in Kolkata and Rani Birla Girls College, a University of Calcutta. After graduating from Loreto House, Riya studied at the National Institute of Fashion Technology, and then she began to make jewelry as a hobby. Most of the clothes she wears in commercials and films are her own designs. Riya has been trained in Kathak under Vijayshree Chaudhury.

She has completed Level 1 of 5 levels in belly dance and kickboxing. Riya started her career in the film industry by working as a model and commuting to Mumbai from Kolkata using public transport. She moved from Ballygunge Circular Road, south Kolkata, to Mumbai after she had made it in the film industry. In 2004, she moved to Juhu where she lives with her sister. Shaadi No. 1 was being filmed. She was injured in an accidently run over by a stuntman’s motorbike while filming Shaadi No. 1. Sen married Shivam Tewari, her boyfriend, in a private Bengali Hindu wedding.

• Actual Name: Riya Sen Dev Varma
• Nickname: Not Known
• Profession: Actress
• Debut: Bollywood (as a child artist): Vishkanya (1991)
• Tamil Film: Taj Mahal (1999)
• Bollywood (as an actress): Style (2001)
• Bengali Film: Mone Pore Tomake (2001)
• Malayalam Film: Anandhabhadram (2005)
• Hollywood: It Was Raining That Night (2005)
• Telugu Film: Nenu Meeku Telusa…? (2008)
• Oriya Film: My Love Story (2013)
• Awards: Star Guild Bengali Film Award for Best Actress for her performance in ‘Noukadubi’ (2012)

Personal Life Info

• Date Of Barth: January 24, 1981
• Age(as in 2020): 39 years
• Birth Place: Kolkata, West Bengal, India
• Zodiac Sign/Sun Sign: Aquarius
• Nationality: Indian
• Hometown: Kolkata, West Bengal, India
• School: Loreto House, Kolkata
• College: Rani Birla Girls’ College, Kolkata
• National Institute of Fashion Technology, Mumbai

Education Qualification: Graduate
Course in Fashion Designing

Family:

• Father- Bharat Dev Varma
• Mother- Moon Moon Sen
• Sister- Raima Sen
• Brother- N/A
• Grandmother- Suchitra Sen
• Religion: Hinduism
• Hobbies: Swimming, Doing Yoga, Listening to Music, Dancing, Painting

Physical Stats & More

• Height(approx): in centimeters- 155 cm
  in meters- 1.55 m
  in feet inches- 5’ 1”
• Weight(approx): in kilograms- 50 kg
  in pounds- 110 lbs
• Figure Measurement(approx): 32-26-34
• Eye Colour: Dark Brown
• Hair Colour: Black
• Shoe Size: 6 inches

Favourite Things

• Favourite Dish(s): Black Cod Fish, Mexican Chicken
• Favourite Actor(s): Not Known
• Favourite Film(s): Titanic (1997), Gone with the Wind (1939)
• Favourite Colour: Not Known
• Favourite Music: Not Known
• Favourite Restaurant: Nobu
• Favourite Cuisine: Thai
• Favourite Car: Porsche Cayenne
• Favourite Destination(s): London, Paris

Boyfriend, Affairs & More

• Marital Status: Married
• Affairs/ Boyfriend(s): John Abraham (Actor)
  Ashmit Patel (Actor)
  Salman Rushdie (Novelist, Rumoured)
  Yuvraj Singh (Cricketer)
  Sreesanth (Cricketer)
  Shivam Tewari
• Marriage Date: August 16, 2017
• Husband: Shivam Tewari
• Daughter/Son: N/A
• Car Collection: Tata Indica, Ford Ikon, Audi A4
• Net Worth(approx): $100,000 – $1M

Career

Riya Sen completed her schooling at Loreto House, Kolkata, and graduated from Rani Birla Girls’ College, Kolkata. Riya also is a certified fashion designer and did a Course in Fashion Designing from the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Mumbai. Riya Sen made her first on-screen appearance in 1991 as a child artist in the Bollywood film Vishkanya as Young Nishi. Riya Sen has worked in diverse cinema from Hindi to Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam, English, Telugu, and Oriya.

At the age of 16, Riya got the recognition as a model from Falguni Pathak‘s music video Yaad Piya Ki Aane Lagi in 1998.In the year 2001, she made her Bollywood debut with the movie Style. In the same year, Riya Sen got a break in the Bengali cinema with the movie Mone Pore Tomake. In 2005, she appeared in the Malayalam movie Anandhabhadram and a Hollywood movie It Was Raining That Night. Riya Sen made her Telugu debut with the movie Nenu Meeku Telusa…? in the year 2008. In 2013, Riya appeared in the Oriya movie My Love Story.

Sen has endorsed various products and brands like Lakme, Keo Karpin Body Oil, Reliance, Nirma Lime Fresh Soap, Close Up Toothpaste, Colgate Toothpaste, and Gitanjali Jewellery, Dabur Vatika Hair Oil, Limca, Agni Jewellery, etc. Riya Sen has modeled for various popular fashion designers like Ritu Kumar, Manish Malhotra, Neeta Lulla, Raghuvendra Rathore, Ranna Gill, JJ Valaya, and Arpan Vohra, etc. She also acted in the short film Lonely Girl (2017) as Radhika Kapoor and in a web series Ragini MMS: Returns (2017) as Simran.

Riya Sen is trained in Kathak dance and is still pursuing it under Vijayshree Chaudhury. In 2007, Femina Magazine ranked her ninth among 50 Most Beautiful Women. Riya was also one of the jury members of Mr. India 2008 contest finale. She appeared on the cover of various magazines like Enlighten India, T3, Stylespeak, etc.

Riya has been working as an activist and appeared in an AIDS awareness music video with the aim of dispelling popular myths about AIDS. As of 2017, she is the only female face to be featured on the annual calendar for five consecutive years, that is, 2003 to 2007. Riya Sen has often been viewed as a bold youth icon. The public persona of Riya Sen is compared to her mother Moon Moon Sen, who was seen as a sex symbol of her time.