Churni Ganguly (née Banerjee) is an Indian actress and director who mainly works in Bengali movies and television productions.

She received the Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards in 2005 in the best actress category for the movie Waarish, in which she played a single-mother's role.

[citation needed] She won two National Film Awards for her directorial ventures Nirbashito and Tarikh.

In spite of being at boarding school, Churni and few other girls were allowed to stay at their homes with their parents.

In 1987, she started a theatre troupe with Suman Mukhopadhyay and her future husband Kaushik Ganguly.

She shifted to Mumbai and acted in Zee TV's first daily soap, Raahat and stayed there for the next two years.

In those days, when she was in her twenties, she acted in Choti si Asha, in which she played a 35-year-old mother's character who matured to about 60.

Though Medha was not married with Subhankar, she denied abortion and gave birth to a son, Megh.

Many years later, when she learns that she is suffering from cancer, she goes to Subhankar, (who was married to another woman at that time) and asks to take responsibility of Megh.

[8] In 2007, Ganguly acted in Jara Bristite Bhijechhilo, directed by Anjan Das.

[citation needed] In the 2010 film Arekti Premer Golpo, Ganguly played the character of Rani/Gopa.

[8] In the same year, Ganguly acted in Ribhu Dasgupta's directorial debut film Michael.

[18] Actor Churni Ganguly debuts as a director in Nirbashito, a bilingual film in Bengali and English, shot in Kolkata and Sweden.

In the film directed by Churni Ganguly, Minu is called Baghini (tigress).

The telefilm Bandhobi was about two college friends (girls) who meet after a long time and remember those days when both of them fell in love with the same man.