Koel Purie Rinchet (born 25 November 1978) is an Indian actress, producer and TV presenter.

About

She made her debut with

Rahul Bose Rahul Bose (born 27 July 1967) is an Indian actor, director, screenwriter, and social activist. Bose has appeared in Bengali films such as '' Mr. and Mrs. Iyer'', '' Kalpurush'', ''Anuranan'', ''Antaheen'', ''Laptop'' and ''The Japanese Wife''. ...

's directorial venture ''

Everybody Says I'm Fine! ''Everybody Says I'm Fine!'' is an Indian English language drama film, released on 12 September 2001 at the Toronto Film Festival. It marks the directorial debut of Indian actor Rahul Bose and the screen debut for actor Boman Irani. For his work ...

'' in 2001 and later featured in ''Road to Ladakh'' starring with

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. She trained at the

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA; ) is a drama school in London, England, that provides vocational conservatoire training for theatre, film, television, and radio. It is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, close to the Senat ...

London. Since then she has worked on more than 20 films in India, the United Kingdom and Canada, played Desdemona at the Leicester Haymarket, acted in the theater production of A Taste for Mangoes (an adaptation of Willian Dalrymple's ''

White Mughals ''White Mughals'' is a 2002 history book by William Dalrymple. It is Dalrymple's fifth major book, and tells the true story of a love affair that took place in early nineteenth century Hyderabad between James Achilles Kirkpatrick and Khair-un ...

),'' and produced top rated TV shows. She has also written for publications such as Cosmopolitan, DNA, Harper's Bazaar, and India Today. While living in Tokyo, Purie was appointed the Tourism Mascot by the Japanese government and shot several videos to promote tourism in Japan. Purie now lives in Paris and has started her own production company to make film, digital and video content for various platforms. Purie hosted a talk show, ''On The Couch With Koel,'' on the Indian news channel Headlines Today. She has produced and hosted various TV shows from ''Great Escape'' for Star plus to ''Aaj Ki Naari'' for DD metro. Koel Purie is the daughter of media tycoon

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Filmography

* ''

'' (2001) * '' American Daylight'' (2004) * ''Road to Ladakh'' (2004) * ''

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'' (2005) * '' Nazar'' (2005) * ''

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'' (2006) * ''Mera Dil Leke Dekho'' (2006) * ''The Lookalike'' (2006) * ''

Life Mein Kabhie Kabhiee ''Life Mein Kabhi Kabhiee'' (transl. ''At Times in Life'') is a 2007 Bollywood social thriller movie, directed by Vikram Bhatt. It was released on 13 April 2007. Boxofficeindia declared the movie box office disaster. Actor Sameer Dattani's role ...

'' (2007) * ''

Amal Amal may refer to: * Amal (given name) * Åmål, a small town in Sweden * Amal Movement, a Lebanese political party ** Amal Militia, Amal Movement's defunct militia * Amal language of Papua New Guinea * Amal (film), ''Amal'' (film), 2007, directed ...

'' (2007) * '' It's Breaking News'' (2007) * ''

The Great Indian Butterfly ''The Great Indian Butterfly'' is a 2007 Indian romance drama film, written and directed by Sarthak Dasgupta. It is the story of a typical modern Indian couple and their journey to Goa in quest of a magical insect, and in turn, peace, love and ha ...

'' (2007) * ''Secrets of the Seven Sounds'' (2008) * '' Rock On!'' (2008) * '' 10ml LOVE'' (2012) * ''

The Zoya Factor ''The Zoya Factor'' is a novel written by Anuja Chauhan, published by HarperCollins India in 2008. It is about a Rajput woman named Zoya Singh Solanki who meets the Indian Cricket Team through her job as an executive in an advertising agenc ...

'' (2019)

TV

*''The Great Escape-'' Star Plus * ''Aaj Ki Naari....''Deepika (all episodes)- DD Metro (1998) *''Holby City'' (1 episode, 2003) - "For Better, for Worse" as Seleena Chowdhury *''The Vice'' (1 episode, 2003) - "Gameboys" as WPC Charlie Carter *''Indian Dream'' (2003) as Neeraj *''As If'' (1 episode, 2004) - "Jamie's POV" as Travel Agent *''Dirty War'' (2004) as DC Sameena Habibullah *''The Afternoon Play'' (1 episode, 2005) - "Reverse Psychology" as Sonia Bhose * ''Losing Gemma'' (2006) as Coral * ''Fairy Tales'' (1 episode, 2008) - "The Empress's New Clothes" as Shekeelia *''On the Couch with Koël'' (2008-2012) - Headlines Today *''Couching with Koël'' (2013-2015) - India Today TV

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* Living people 1978 births Actresses from Delhi Indian film actresses Indian television actresses Actresses in Hindi cinema Indian emigrants to France Actresses from Paris Indian expatriate actresses in the United States Indian expatriate actresses in the United Kingdom Indian expatriates in Japan Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art {{india-actor-stub