Shweta Basu Prasad is an Indian film actress who was born on January 11, 1991. She has had a successful career in Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi films, winning National Film Awards and being nominated for Filmfare Awards in the South. Shweta Basu Prasad was born in Jamshedpur, Bihar (now Jharkhand), on January 11, 1991, and moved to Mumbai with her family when she was a toddler.

Shweta completed her graduation in mass media and journalism after studying business at R. N. Poddar High School in Santacruz, Mumbai. She contributed to The Indian Express as a columnist. She married filmmaker Rohit Mittal on December 13, 2018, and added her mother's maiden name Basu to her screen name. On December 10, 2019, she confirmed their breakup on Instagram.