Kalki Koechlin is an Indian actress and screenwriter of French ethnicity, who predominantly works in Bollywood. Apart from acting in films, she is also a regular presence in theatre productions in India. Kalki Koechlin is the recipient of a National Film Award, a Filmfare Award and two Screen Awards.

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Drawn to theatre at a young age, Kalki Koechlin studied drama and theatre at University of London, and worked simultaneously with a local theatre company. After returning to India, she made her screen debut in the romantic drama Dev.D in 2009, and her performance as Chandramukhi earned her the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress. She then starred in the comedy-dramas Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011) and Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (2013). These were top-grossing Bollywood productions, and both earned her Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Filmfare Awards. Koechlin co-wrote the screenplay for the crime thriller That Girl in Yellow Boots (2011), in which she also played the lead role. She won the National Film Award – Special Jury Award, among other accolades, for her role as a young, disabled girl in Shonali Bose's coming-of-age drama Margarita with a Straw (2014).

Kalki Koechlin was born in Pondicherry, India, on 10 January 1984 to French parents, father Joel Koechlin (dad) & mother Françoise Armandie (mom), who came to India from Angers, France. She is a descendant of Maurice Koechlin, a French structural engineer, who played an important role in the design and construction of the Eiffel Tower. Kalki Koechlin's parents are devotees of Sri Aurobindo. The family later settled in Kallatty, a village near Ooty in Tamil Nadu, where Koechlin's father established a business designing hang-gliders and ultralight aircraft.

Kalki Koechlin was brought up in a strict environment in Ooty where she spoke English, Tamil, and French. Her parents divorced when she was fifteen; her father moved to Bangalore and remarried, while Koechlin continued living with her mother. She has described the time that she spent at Kalatty, between the ages of 5 and 8, before her parent's divorce as her "happiest". Kalki Koechlin has a maternal half-brother from her mother's preceding marriage, and a paternal half-brother from her father's subsequent marriage.

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