[1][2] She reigned as a leading actress of Bengali cinema for nearly 30 years.

Roy made her silver screen debut with Mamlar Phol (1956).

[4] She was catapulted to stardom after she starred in Nagini Kanyar Kahini (1958).

In 2014, she contested a seat in the Lok Sabha elections for the Trinamool Congress.

She won the 2014 Lok Sabha elections from the Medinipur constituency and became a Member of the Parliament of India.