Biography
Bijoya Ray (née Das; 27 October 1917 – 2 June 2015) was the wife of the Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray. Their son Sandip Ray is also a film director. Bijoya and Satyajit were first cousins. Bijoya's father was the eldest half brother of Satyajit Ray's mother. After a long courtship, they were married in 1949. Bijoya Ray acted and sang playback song in a Bengali feature film called Shesh Raksha in 1944 and also acted in the documentary Gaach (The Tree) by Catherine Berge in 1998. She died in Kolkata on 2 June 2015, aged 97, after suffering from acute pneumonia.
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GenderFemale
Birthday1918-10-25
Deathday2015-06-02 (96 years old)
RelationshipsSatyajit Ray (1949-01-01 - 1992-01-01)
ChildrenSandip Ray
RelativesRuma Guha Thakurta
CitizenshipsDominion of India, British Raj, India
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