# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/farrukh-jaffar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:58:33.544Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/farrukh-jaffar"
name: "Farrukh Jaffar"
slug: "farrukh-jaffar"
description: "Farrukh Jaffar was an Indian actress and radio presenter in Bollywood. Most remembered for her roles in films like Swades (2004), Peepli Live (2010) and Gulabo Sitabo for which won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress. Having begun her career with Vividh Bharti in 1963, she made a transition into acting with a supporting role in the 1981 film Umrao Jaan. Jaffar continued to act sporadically, and beginning in the late 2010s, gained wider recognition for working in a spate of critically successful films. At the age of 88, she won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Fatima Begum in Gulabo Sitabo, becoming the oldest winner of an acting Filmfare."
tagline: "Indian actress and radio presenter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Farrukh_Jaffar_in_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1933"
deathDate: "2021-10-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.88
  momentum:             0.04686584651435267
  historical:           8.66174
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1585543/"
    handle:    "nm1585543"
sources:
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    title: "ਫਾਰੂਖ ਜਾਫ਼ਰ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فرخ جعفر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Джаффар, Фаррух"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ᱯᱷᱚᱨᱩᱠᱷ ᱡᱟᱯᱷᱚᱨ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ఫరూఖ్ జాఫర్"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Farrukh Jaffar"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump