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She is notable for her performance on the TV soap Hum Log, telecast in the early 80s on Doordarshan, in which she played Daadi (the grandmother). She has also worked with theatre directors like Ram Gopal Bajaj and Manish Joshi Bismil. Seth appeared in the TV sitcom Dekh Bhai Dekh (1993), directed by Anand Mahendroo, where she played the matriarch of the Divan family. She has played the mother and grandmother of many Bollywood performers including Rishi Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Shahrukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Anil Kapoor and Preity Zinta. She received a nomination for the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for her role in the 1985 B. She also appeared in the Punjabi film Chann Pardesi (1980).
She has starred in some of the biggest hits in the Indian industry including Silsila, Prem Rog, Ram Teri Ganga Maili, Chandni, Deewana, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham and Kal Ho Naa Ho. She made her big screen debut with Shyam Benegal's 1978 period film Junoon, in which she played Shashi Kapoor's aunt. In the 1970s, she founded and ran the Children's Creative Theatre, an ensemble that put up plays and conducted workshops for children. In addition to acting, she has directed many plays. With Joy Michael, Rati Bartholomew, Roshan Seth and others, she was one of the founders of the Delhi-based theatre group Yatrik in 1964. Seth started her career on stage in the 1950s. Among them is actress Divya Seth, who acted alongside her mother in Hum Log and Dekh Bhai Dekh. Sushma Seth and her husband, businessman Dhruv Seth, have three children. Thereafter she did a teachers training diploma in home science, Lady Irwin College, New Delhi, Associate in Science diploma, Briarcliff College, New York, and later, Bachelor of Fine Arts, from Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, United States. She completed her schooling at Convent of Jesus and Mary, New Delhi. Brought up in Delhi, she is the elder sister of Manipuri dancer Charu Sija Mathur, the wife of Padma Shri awardee Rajkumar Singhajit Singh.