Rhea Chakraborty is an Indian actress and VJ. She started her career as a VJ on MTV India. In 2013, she made her Bollywood acting debut with the film Mere Dad Ki Maruti.
Rhea started her television career in 2009 with MTV India's TVS Scooty Teen Diva where she was the first runner-up. Later on, she auditioned to be a VJ at MTV Delhi and was selected. She has hosted several MTV shows, including Pepsi MTV Wassup, TicTac College Beat and MTV Gone in 60 Seconds. In 2012 she made her film debut with the Telugu filmTuneega Tuneega where she played the character Nidhi. In 2013 she debuted in Bollywood with Mere Dad Ki Maruti as Jasleen. In 2014 she played the loose character of Sonali in Sonali Cable. In 2017 she appeared in YRF's Bank Chor. She also did cameo appearances in Half Girlfriend and . In 2018 she appeared in Jalebi opposite debutante Varun Mitra.
On 16 July 2020, Hindustan Times reported in the wake of actor Sushant Singh Rajput's suicide that Chakraborty had "identified herself as Sushant's girlfriend". On 25 July, Sushant's family lodged an first information report with Patna Police, where his father lives, alleging Chakraborty, Indrajit Chakraborty, Sandhya Chakraborty, Shruti Modi, Showik Chakraborty and others of abetment of suicide, wrongful restraint, wrongful confinement, theft, criminal breach of trust, and cheating under the sections 341, 342, 380, 406, 420, 306 and 120 of the IPC. Rajput's father, K K Singh, said in the FIR that Sushant had confided to his sister that Chakraborty threatened him that she would make his medical receipts public and prove him mad; that Rajput was afraid Chakraborty would frame him for his secretary's suicide; and that before his day of suicide, Chakraborty took away all doctor's receipts. On 28 July, India Today reported that Chakraborty had been booked in the case. Zee News reported that Chakraborty convinced Rajput to appoint her brother Showik Chakraborty as a director to their company Vividrage RhealityX Pvt, which opened in September 2019. This company's address is Chakraborty's father Indrajit Chakraborty's home address in Navi Mumbai. It is being investigated if Rajput was financially exploited by Chakraborty's family.
