Shimla (actress)

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Shimla
শিমলা
Born
Shamsun Nahar Shimla

(1982-12-04) 4 December 1982 (age 41)
NationalityBangladeshi
OccupationActress
Years active1999–present
Spouse
Palash Ahmed
(m. 2018;div. 2018)
AwardsNational Film Award [1]

Shamsun Nahar Shimla (known as Shimla; born 4 December 1982) [2] is a Bangladeshi film actress. [3] She won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Actress for her debut film Madam Fuli (1999). [4]

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Career

Shimla originated from a small town of Jhenaidah. [5] She debuted in acting through her performance in the film Madam Fuli (1999). [6]

Shimla was married to Palash Ahmed for eight months in 2018. Ahmed was involved in an attempt of aircraft hijacking incident in 2019 in which he was killed in a commando operation. Shimla met him in a birthday party of the director of the film Naiar (2017). [7]

Works

Films

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