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{{short description|Indian film actress}}
{{Use Indian English|date=February 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2016}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Raisa Padamsee
| image =
| image size = 250 px
| alt =
| caption = screenshot from the film ''Duvidha''{{deletable image-caption|Friday, 23 June 2017|F7}}
| birth_name =
| birth_date =
| birth_place = [[Rochefort, Nouvelle-Aquitaine|Rochefort]], France
| death_date =
| death_place =
| nationality = Indian, Half-French
| spouse = Laurent Brégeat
| parents = [[Akbar Padamsee]]<br/>Solange Gunelle
| relatives = [[Alyque Padamsee]](uncle)<br/>[[Shazahn Padamsee]](cousin)<br/>[[Sharon Prabhakar]] (aunt)
| other_names =
| known_for = [[Duvidha]]
| occupation = Film actress
}}

'''Raisa Padamsee''' is an Indian film actress, who acted in the well-known Indian auteur [[Mani Kaul]]'s 1973 Hindi film ''[[Duvidha]]''.

==Early life==
Raisa is the only daughter of an Indian-French couple, the well-known painter [[Akbar Padamsee]] and Solange Gounelle.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artnewsnviews.com/view-article.php?article=akbar-padamsee-the-shastra-of-art&iid=30&articleid=842 |title=Akbar Padamsee: The Shastra of Art |publisher=Artnewsnviews.com |date= |access-date=2014-01-10}}</ref> She was named by [[M.F. Hussain]], whose daughter is named Raisa, as well.<ref>{{cite web | title = The last great moderns: Akbar Padamsee|publisher=Livemint| url = http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/rQ0LVSi6WqIhyeIACI8v1J/The-last-great-moderns--Akbar-Padamsee.html |date=13 January 2012| access-date = 2014-01-11}}</ref>

==Career==
She played the female protagonist in the critically acclaimed film ''Duvidha'' that won best director's national award and [[Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie|Critics Award for Best Film]] at the 1974 [[Filmfare Awards]]. Raisa did not know a word of Hindi and only spoke French, when she played the role of the silent bride in the movie.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=20110729281511300.htm&date=fl2815/&prd=fline&| title = Master of the visual| work = [[The Hindu]]|access-date=2014-01-09 }}</ref>

==Personal life==
Raisa did not act in any more movies after her debut movie, and went back to [[Paris]] where she now lives with her family. Her husband Laurent Brégeat is a filmmaker.<ref>{{cite web|title=Artists are like wild animals|publisher=Mumbai Mirror|url=http://www.mumbaimirror.com/others/sunday-read/Artists-are-like-wild-animals/articleshow/16205839.cms|date=12 January 2012| access-date = 28 July 2015}}</ref>

Well-known theater personality and ad film maker [[Alyque Padamsee]] is her uncle. He was married to the singer and actress [[Sharon Prabhakar]]. Their daughter and Raisa's cousin [[Shazahn Padamsee]] too is an actress.

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[[Category:20th-century Indian actresses]]
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