Shanti Chakraborty is a German actress and voice actress born on January 11, 1985, in the Palatinate region of Germany to a Bengali father and a German mother. She trained at the Schauspielschule Charlottenburg in Berlin, where she also took additional lessons in dance and singing. Her early performance experience included work in theater, musicals, and short films before appearing in the German cinema production Groupies bleiben nicht zum Frühstück.

Chakraborty has built an extensive career in voice acting, lending her voice to numerous characters in German-dubbed versions of international films, television series, and anime. Her work is primarily documented in the German dubbing industry, where she has been the regular German voice for actresses such as Elisabeth Mathis, Grace Phipps, and Vanessa Marano. Notable live-action dubbing roles include Santana Lopez in the series Glee, Rebecca Mitchell in Dexter, and Morgan Sanders in Hostages. She has also voiced characters in popular American series like Grimm, Supernatural, and American Horror Story.

In the realm of anime and animation, Chakraborty has taken on a range of significant roles. She voiced the female lead, Zero Two, in the series Darling in the Franxx and Nagisa Furukawa in Clannad. Her other anime credits include Iris in Appleseed Alpha, Kanade Tachibana in Angel Beats!, and Candy Chiu in Gravity Falls. Additional anime roles documented in her filmography include characters in Selector Infected Wixoss, Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid, and Norn9.