Jaya Bhaduri was born in a Bengali family on 9 April 1948. She is the daughter of Tarun Kumar Bhaduri, a journalist, author, and poet and his wife, Indira. She studied at St Joseph's Convent School, Bhopal and graduated from ਹੋਰ ਦੇਖੋ

Jaya married actor Amitabh Bachchan, on 3 June 1973. The couple have two children: Shweta Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan ਹੋਰ ਦੇਖੋ

Bachchan is regarded as one of the greatest actors of Indian cinema. One of the highest paid actress of the 1970s, in 2022, she was placed in Outlook India's "75 Best Bollywood Actresses" list. Filmfare included Bachchan's performances in … ਹੋਰ ਦੇਖੋ

• Banerjee, Shampa; Anil Srivastava (1988). One Hundred Indian Feature Films: An Annotated Filmography. Taylor & Francis. ਹੋਰ ਦੇਖੋ

Bachchan is an alumna of the Film and Television Institute of India. She first starred in Satyajit Ray's Bengali film, Mahanagar (1963) at the age of 15, with Anil Chatterjee ਹੋਰ ਦੇਖੋ

Bachchan was first elected in 2004 as the Member of Parliament from the Samajwadi Party, representing Uttar Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha till March 2006. She got a second term from … ਹੋਰ ਦੇਖੋ

Civilian Award
• 1992 – Padma Shri – India's fourth highest civilian honour by the Government of India.
Major film awards ਹੋਰ ਦੇਖੋ