Ferdousi Mazumder

Mazumder was an intermediate student of Eden College.^[1] She earned her master's degree in both Bengali and Arabic from the University of Dhaka.^{[citation needed]}

Mazumder started her drama career through her brother, Munier Chowdhury, a playwright and novelist.^[1] She first acted in the drama Daktar Abdullahar Karkhana, written by Shawkat Osman, which was a production of the then Iqbal Hall of the University of Dhaka.^[1] Ferdousi also acted in the first televised drama of the East Pakistan branch of PTV (now Bangladesh Television), Ektala Dotala (1964).^[1] Over the years, she performed in plays like Kokilara, a one-woman play, Eka, a one-character non-verbal play, Tamoshi, written by Nilima Ibrahim and others.^[1] She directed five stage plays including Meherjan Arekbar, Tahara Tokhono, Chithi and Dui Bon.^[1]

After the independence of Bangladesh, in 1972, a group of Chhatra Shikkhak Natya Goshthi members formed a theatre troupe calling it Theatre. Majumdar was one of the founding members of the troupe.^[1]

Mazumder is married to Ramendu Majumdar since around 1970.^[4][5] Together they have a daughter, Tropa Mazumder (b. 1973).^[6] Her father, Khan Bahadur Abdul Halim Chowdhury, was a district magistrate. Her brother Munier Chowdhury was an educationist and writer. Another brother, Kabir Chowdhury, was a professor and intellectual.^[7] Another two brothers Lt. Colonel Abdul Qayyum Chowdhury^[8] and Mehboob Chowdhury served in the Pakistan Army.

• Bangla Academy Literary Award (2020)^[9]
• Independence Day Award (2020)^[10]
• Ekushey Padak (1998)
• William Kerry Award (1998)
• Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy Award for Best Actor (1978)
• First National TV Award for Best Acting (1975)
• Sequence Award of Merit for performance in TV for a decade^[1]