The actress is from India.
She has won several awards, including a National Film Award and seven Filmfare Awards, for her roles in female-led films.
She also received the highest award from the Government of India.
In 1995, she began her acting career in the sitcom Hum Paanch.
While studying for a master's degree in sociology at the University of Mumbai, she struggled to kickstart her acting career.
Her first film was the Bengali movie Bhalo Theko, and she gained acclaim for her debut Hindi film, the drama Parineeta.
Despite her commercial successes, her subsequent roles did not advance her career.
Her portrayal of headstrong women in five successful films garnered critical and awards acclaim.
Among these successes were the thrillers No One Killed Jessica and Kahaani, as well as The Dirty Picture.
She received the National Film Award for Best Actress for her performance.
After a period of decline, Vidya made a comeback by portraying happy women juggling work and family responsibilities.
Her most successful film was the latter.
Apart from the Amazon Prime Video movies, Vidya has also acted in other films.
She will not tolerate anybody's subordination and will always take the lead and prefer to work independently.
She will not appreciate the advice of others and will choose her path according to her own decision.
She will be strong willed and engrossed with qualities of leadership.
She will be enterprising and ambitious. She will be fully engrossed in materializing her dreams.
She will be energetic, quick moving, impatient and always be keen to give advise.
She will always make efforts to impress everyone who comes in contact with her.
She will be energetic, clever and lively but firm in her belief.
She will have the capacity of planning and running organizations.
She will be frank in speech and respectful towards sincere people.
Her viewpoint will be scientific and she will be interested in debates and arguments.
Her conversational style will be enthusiastic and aggressive.
She will be egoistic and will give importance to 'I' always.
She will have a competitive and challenging spirit.
She will be fond of travelling and mountaineering.
She will be self centered and sacrificing.
She will be uncompromising in all matters.
She will be recognized for her quick work style.
She will be bold and risk taking.
Her main weaknesses will be - wavering ideas, impatience, unbridled anger, quarrelsome, aggressive nature and will have a blind faith in religion.