Amrita Singh (born 9 February 1958) is an Indian actress. Through her films like Betaab and Mard, she gained popularity and became a well known and popular actress in the 1980s. She took a break from acting in the early 1990s for a decade and returned to acting in 2002, occasionally playing supporting roles. She also made her debut on television in 2005. Amrita keeps a low public profile and gives few interviews.
She is the daughter of Rukhsana Sultana who raised her as a single parent.
Amrita Singh Virk was born in Hadali, West Pakistan to a Punjabi Muslim mother Rukhsana Sultana and a Punjabi Jat Sikh father, army officer Shivinder Singh Virk, from a feudal family. Her mother was a political associate of Sanjay Gandhi during the Indian Emergency in the 1970s. Through her paternal grandmother Mohinder Kaur, Amrita is the great-granddaughter of Sobha Singh, one of the builders of New Delhi, and the great-niece of the late novelist Khushwant Singh. The actress Begum Para is her great-aunt and her husband was Nasir Khan, who is the brother of Dilip Kumar. Actor Ayub Khan is her second cousin. Virk was a childhood friend of Shahrukh Khan. Their mothers often worked together in the Old Delhi area and Singh attended the same school as Khan's sister, Shahnaz.