# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/amala-shankar
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:28:26.970Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/amala-shankar"
name: "Amala Shankar"
slug: "amala-shankar"
description: "Amala Shankar was an Indian dancer. She was the wife of dancer and choreographer Uday Shankar and mother of musician Ananda Shankar and dancer Mamata Shankar and sister-in-law of musician and composer Ravi Shankar. Amala Shankar acted in the film Kalpana written, co-produced and directed by husband Uday Shankar. She died on Friday, 24 July 2020, in West Bengal's Kolkata, India aged 101."
tagline: "Indian dancer (1919-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Amala_Shankar_-_Kolkata_2011-05-09_2810.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1919-06-27"
deathDate: "2020-07-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm1143840"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump