Bijoya Ray

Bijoya Ray (''née'' Das; 27 October 1917 – 2 June 2015) was the wife of the Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray. Their son Sandip Ray is also a film director. Bijoya and Satyajit were first cousins. Bijoya's father was the eldest half brother of Satyajit Ray's mother. After a long courtship, they were married in 1949. Bijoya Ray acted and sang playback song in a Bengali feature film called ''Shesh Raksha'' in 1944 and also acted in the documentary ''Gaach'' (The Tree) by Catherine Berge in 1998. She died in Kolkata on 2 June 2015, aged 97, after suffering from acute pneumonia. Provided by Wikipedia