Lillete Dubey

Lillete Dubey (Sindhi: لِليِيٽِ دُبي, Hindi: लिलेट दुबे) (born 7 September 1953) is an Indian actress who appeared on the stage and inBollywood films.

Personal Life & Background
illete Dubey was born in Pune to a Sindhi family.[3] She married Ravi Dubey on September 12, 1978. Her daughter, Neha Dubey, is also an actress and has acted as a bad girl and Pratyush's second wife after Akanksha who starred in Mira Nair's movie Monsoon Wedding and danced to the song "Chunari chunari," which was played during the sangeet ceremony in the movie. Her other daughter, Ira Dubey is also an actress and starred in The President Is Coming with Konkona Sen Sharma and 'Aisha' opposite Sonam Kapoor and Abhay Deol. Her sister Lushin Dubey is also a theatre actor and director.

Career
Dubey has appeared in numerous movies, for example in Mira Nair's movie Monsoon Wedding co-starring Nasiruddin Shah, Kal Ho Naa Ho, which starred Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Saif Ali Khan and Jaya Bachchan, in the movie Baghban alongside Amitabh Bachchan, in Bow Barracks Forever alongside her daughter Neha Dubey, and in the movie Housefull alongside Akshay Kumar and Deepika Padukone.

She also played a role in the British film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which starred Maggie Smith, Judi Dench and Bill Nighy.

Lillete Dubey, in addition to acting, is an acclaimed theatre director, television and film artist, and founder of the Theatre Action Group in Delhi.

She has directed a number of plays. Most notable being Mahesh Dattani's Dance like a Man, which is the longest running play in English, having completed 497 shows across the world, including a two week run on the Broadway. In 2015 she played Roshana Dalal in Channel Four's Indian Summers.