Satabdi Roy is an Indian actress and politician from West Bengal. She has been acting since 1986 in the Bengali cinema and serving as a Member of Parliament since 2009. She is an actress, director and teacher of acting in the Bengali language film industry as well as an author of poetry in Bengali. Roy made her film debut in the film called Atanka, directed by Tapan Sinha, which was released in 1986. She became the Member of Parliament, having won in the Lok Sabha election on a Trinamool Congress ticket from the Birbhum constituency of West Bengal in 2009. less