Tillotama Shome

Tillotama Shome (born 25 June 1980[1]) is an Indian actress known primarily for her work in independent films.

She won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress for playing the lead role of a housemaid in the drama film Sir (2018).

Shome has also starred in the films A Death in the Gunj (2017) and Lust Stories 2 (2023), as well as the television series Delhi Crime (2022), The Night Manager (2023), and Paatal Lok (2025).

[3] Shome went to Delhi's Lady Shri Ram College and joined Arvind Gaur's Asmita theatre group.

Her performance as a girl who is raised as a boy in Qissa won her the best actress title in the New Horizons Competition of the seventh Abu Dhabi Film Festival (ADFF).