Uttara Baokar (5 August 1944 – 12 April 2023)[1] was an Indian stage, film, and television actress. She acted in several notable plays, such as Padmavati in Mukyhamantri, Mena in Mena Gurjari,
Desdemona in Shakespeare's Othello, the mother in playwright
Girish Karnad's Tughlaq, the
nautch girl in Chhote Saiyad Bade Saiyad, and the lead role of Umrao in Umrao Jaan.[2] In 1978, she directed
Jaywant Dalvi's play Sandhya Chhaya, translated to Hindi by Kusum Kumar.[3]
In 1984, she won the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Acting (Hindi theatre).[4] She appeared in
Marathi films such as Doghi (1995) with Sadashiv Amrapurkar and Renuka Daftardar, Uttarayan (2005), Shevri (2006), and Restaurant (2006) with Sonali Kulkarni.[5]