Mrinal Kulkarni

Mrinal Dev-Kulkarni (born 21 June 1968) is a film and soap opera actress and director in India known for her role in popular Hindi language TV serial "Son Pari". She has acted in both Marathi and Hindi TV serials and films.
Early life, family and Education.
She was born in a Marathi Deshastha Brahmin family in Pune. Her parents are Dr. Vijay Dev and Veena Dev. She has a Master's degree in Linguistics from Pune University. She has a sister named Madhura. She lost her father after illness on 11 April 2019. 
She married her childhood friend Ruchir Kulkarni in 1990 and has a son Virajas who is also a part of Marathi film industry.
Acting career.
Mrinal was 16 when she made her debut in the role of Peshawe Madhavrao's wife Ramabai Peshawe in the Marathi TV serial "Swami". This gave her a popularity. Ravindra Mankani played the role of Madhavrao.
She was not very serious about acting. Instead she wanted to complete doctorate in philosophy. But offers kept coming her way and finally she decided to make a career in acting in 1994. She continued with acting as her career on receiving, after the above successful role, many more roles, including those in "Shrikant" (a TV serial based on one of Saratchandra Chatterjee's novels), "The Great Maratha", "Draupadi", "Hasratein", "Meerabai", "Teacher", "Khel", "Sparsh" and "Sonpari". Her role in the TV serial "Avantika" on Alpha Marathi channel has received much acclaim. Mrinal is famous for playing a number of historic characters – Draupadi , Ahilya Bai Holkar, Ramabai, Jijabai etc. She had done 22 hindi TV shows till now. She stopped acting in TV serial to focus on her direction ventures.
She has also done a few advertisements as well.
Mrinal Kulkarni has acted in Marathi as well as Bollywood films.
Direction.
Mrinal Kulkarni Debuted as Director Marathi film Prem Mhanje Prem Mhanje Prem Asta, The story of the film has been written by Mrunal Kulkarni. After that she directed Marathi historical drama Rama Madhav.
Awards.
Kulkarni has won following awards-