Awards & Winners

Waheeda Rehman

Date of Birth 03-February-1938
Place of Birth Chengalpattu
(Kanchipuram district, Tamil Nadu, India)
Nationality India
Also know as Waheeda Kamaljit Singh, Waheeda Rahman, Waheeda, वहीदा कमलजीत सिंह, वहीदा
Profession Actor, Dancer, Businessperson
Waheeda Rehman is an Indian actress who has appeared in mainly Hindi films, as well as Telugu films. She is noted for her contributions to different genres of films from the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. She has received a Centenary Award for Indian Film Personality, a Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award, a National Film Award for Best Actress and two Filmfare Awards for Best Actress, throughout her career. She has been cited as the Bollywood's "most beautiful" actress by various media outlets, a title for which she has received substantial publicity. Rehman was born into a Muslim family in Chengalpattu, Madras Province, British India. She was in her teens when her father had died. Her dream was to become a doctor but, due to her family circumstances and her mother illness, she abandoned her goal. In order, to help her family, she hit the silver screen with Telugu films, Jayasimha, followed by Rojulu Marayi and a Tamil film Kaalam Maari Pochu. It is in Vijaya-Suresh's Ram aur Shyam in 1967 that she acted again under the direction of the topnotch Telugu director Tapi Chanakya who incidentally directed her movies Rojulu Maaraayi in Telugu and Kaalam Maaripochu in Tamil.

Awards by Waheeda Rehman

Check all the awards nominated and won by Waheeda Rehman.

1992


Nominations 1992 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress Lamhe

1983


Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress Namkeen

1977


Nominations 1977 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress Kabhi Kabhie

1971


Nominations 1971 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Filmfare Award for Best Actress Khamoshi

1969


Filmfare Award for Best Actress
Honored for : Neel Kamal

Nominations 1969 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Filmfare Award for Best Actress Neel Kamal

1968


Nominations 1968 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Filmfare Award for Best Actress Ram Aur Shyam

1967


Filmfare Award for Best Actress
Honored for : Guide

Nominations 1967 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Filmfare Award for Best Actress Guide

1963


Nominations 1963 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam
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