Rituparna was born in Kolkata; went to Carmel and Gokhel Memorial for schooling, and then graduated from Lady Brabourne College with history major. While in high school, she was picked by Prabhat Roy for his film 'Swet Patharer Thala'. She was able to draw considerable attention in her first movie. Since that point Rituparna acted in many movies and became a popular actress of her time. Rituparna excelled with her performance in both commercial mainstream and parallel films. She received National award for Best Actress for her role in Rituparno Ghosh's 'Dahan'. Rituparna also acted in Hindi films and still acting in both Bengali and Hindi films.
     Apart from acting, Rituparna is a dancer and performs group dance shows with her team. She also launched a movie production company.

Filmography:

Film	Year	Director	Co-actor
Swet Patharer Thala	1992	Prabhat Roy	Bhaskar Banerjee
Laathi	1996	Prabhat Roy	Abhishek Chatterjee
Dahan	1997	Rituparno Ghosh	Abhishek Chatterjee
Baba Keno Chakar	1997	Swapan Saha
Utsab	2000	Rituparno Ghosh	Prosenjit Chatterjee
Paramitar Ekdin	2000	Aparna Sen	Aparna Sen
Jamaibabu Zindabad	2001	Haranath Chakrabarty	Prosenjit Chatterjee
Aatmio Swajan	2002	Raja Sen	Tapas Pal
Mondo Meyer Upakhyyan	2002	Buddhadeb Dasgupta	Samata Das
Alo	2003	Tarun Majumdar	Kunal Mitra
Kaalo Chita	2004	Shatarupa Sanyal	Sharad Kapur
Nishijapon	2005	Sandip Ray	Sabyasachi Chakraborty
Mein Meri Patni Aur Oh	2005	Chandan Arora	Rajpal Yadav
Debipaksha	2005	Raja Sen	Satabdi Roy, Koyel Mallik
Anuranan	2006	Aniruddha Roychoudhury	Rahul Bose