Uttara Baokar

Uttara Baokar (5 August 1944 – 12 April 2023)[1] was an Indian stage, film, and television actress.

She acted in several notable plays, such as Padmavati in Mukyhamantri, Mena in Mena Gurjari, Desdemona in Shakespeare's Othello, the mother in playwright Girish Karnad's Tughlaq, the nautch girl in Chhote Saiyad Bade Saiyad, and the lead role of Umrao in Umrao Jaan.

[2] In 1978, she directed Jaywant Dalvi's play Sandhya Chhaya, translated to Hindi by Kusum Kumar.

[4] She appeared in Marathi films such as Doghi (1995) with Sadashiv Amrapurkar and Renuka Daftardar, Uttarayan (2005), Shevri (2006), and Restaurant (2006) with Sonali Kulkarni.

[5] Uttara studied acting at National School of Drama (NSD),[6] Delhi, under Ebrahim Alkazi,[7] graduating in 1968.