Madhu Kambikar is an Indian performing folk art artist, theatre actor and film and TV personality,[2] from Maharashtra.

In a career spanning over four decades, she has worked in over 75 films and has received several accolades including a Filmfare Marathi Award and six Maharashtra State Film Awards.

[3][4][5][6][7] She was born in Malegaon, a village in Beed district, 28 July 1953 in the Kolhati community.

[1] She dropped out of school and used to follow her father himself a performing artist to shows.

[8] On 27 November 2016, she fell unconscious on stage during a lavani-tamasha performance at Yashwant Natya Mandir, Matunga and was hospitalised.