Get a closer look at some of Hollywood's perfect pairs.

Hollywood Power Couples

Get a closer look at some of Hollywood&#39;s perfect pairs.

See which big screen releases you can watch from the comfort of your couch.

Theatrical Releases Coming to Streaming

See who dazzled on the red carpet and took home gold at the 78th Primetime Creative Emmy Awards.

Primetime Creative Arts Emmys: Photos We Love

Kalki Koechlin was born to French parents in a small village in Pondicherry. Her parents had come to India as hippies in the 1970s and settled there after they fell in love with the country. Her parents are devotees of Sri Aurobindo.

Kalki was studying in Ooty when her parents insisted that she attend university. She studied drama and theatre at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she also worked with a theater company called Theatre of Relativity for two years. She performed in various plays, including David Hare's "The Blue Room," Marivaux's "The Dispute," and a devised play called "The Rise of the Wild Hunt" during her two-year stint with the theater group.

Kalki later decided to move to Mumbai to try her luck in Indian cinema. She was doing modeling assignments for television commercials before being shortlisted for the role of Chandramukhi (Chanda) in Dev.D (2009). Kalki, who can speak Tamil, English, and French, had to learn Hindi to prepare for her role in Dev.D (2009). She was apprehensive about how people would judge her after seeing her in the role.

She won The Hindu's 2009 MetroPlus Playwright Award, along with Prashant Prakash, for their co-authored entry "Skeleton Woman." Kalki also acted in the play "Hair" directed by Ajay Krishnan.

Began a relationship with director <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0440604/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Anurag Kashyap</a> after the first film they worked on together, <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt1327035/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Dev.D (2009)</a>, was released. They were married in April 2011. In November 2013, Koechlin and Kashyap issued a joint statement announcing they were separating. In May 2015, they divorced.

Koechlin speaks Tamil, English, French, and Hindi.

She is a descendant of Maurice Koechlin (1856-1946), a Swiss structural engineer who, as the managing director of Gustave Eiffel&#39;s Compagnie des Establissments Eiffel, contributed to the construction of the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty.

She won the Best Supporting Actress at the Global Indian Film and TV Awards in 2012 for the role she played in <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt1836912/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Shaitan (2011)</a>.

Was good friends with actress Kali Sudhra at one point while living abroad.

Canadian actress Kali Sudhra chose the screen name &quot;Kali&quot; as she is big fan of actress Kalki and Hindu goddess Kaali.

Trivia

Kalki Koechlin

Contribute to this page

More from this person

More to explore

Recently viewed