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Payel De

Bengali actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ56949546
Source-derived summary

Payel De (Born 18 November 1986), also known as Payel Dey, is a Bengali actress. She began her career in 2006 with Zee Bangla's Ekdin Pratidin daily soap, where she portrayed Chandrayee as a supporting character. She is known for her work in the Star Jalsha television soap operas Durga and Behula where she played the titular characters. She made her film debut with Mayabazaar.

Personal life

On 3 February 2012, she married her co-actor Dwaipayan Das from the telefilm Sokol Kata Dhonno Kore. They have a son, who was born in 2018.

Career

She started her career while she was studying in college. Afterwards, she starred as Aalo Moitra in the TV serial Bodhu Kon Alo Laaglo Chokhe which aired on Star Jaisha. She has also played lead characters in Maa Durga (Colors Bangla), Tobu Mone Rekho (Zee Bangla), Ardhangini (Star Jalsha), Jaahanara (Colors Bangla), Durga Durgeshwari (Star Jalsha), Chuni Panna (Star Jalsha) and currently Desher Maati (Star Jalsha). She also dubbed for the Bengali movie Fidaa, starring Yash and Sanjana.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Payel De” is bengali actress. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Payel, Bengali and actress, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1986, 2006, 2012, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1986-01-01. For this dossier, Payel, Bengali and actress is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “bengali actress” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q56949546. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1986, 2006, 2012 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from Payel De” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.