# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gamini-fonseka
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:31:46.106Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gamini-fonseka"
name: "Gamini Fonseka"
slug: "gamini-fonseka"
description: "Kala Keerthi Sembuge Gamini Shelton Fonseka was a Sri Lankan film actor, film director and politician. Often considered one of the greatest actors in Sinhala cinema, Fonseka dominated the industry in the 1960s and 1970s and won several Best Actor and Popular Actor awards throughout his career. Some critics and audiences regard Gamini Fonseka as the greatest actor in the Sri Lankan film industry, while others argue that title belongs to Joe Abeywickrama. Fonseka was the first to die among the three “crowned kings” of Sri Lankan cinema, followed by Joe Abeywickrama and then Tony Ranasinghe."
tagline: "Sri Lankan actor-politician"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8c/Gamini_Fonseka.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1936-03-24"
deathDate: "2004-09-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.25
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.626928
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0284715/"
    handle:    "nm0284715"
sources:
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%BF_%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8A%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BE"
    title: "காமினி பொன்சேகா"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جامينى فونسيكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamini_Fonseka"
    title: "Gamini Fonseka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%97%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%BF_%E0%B4%AB%E0%B5%8A%E0%B5%BB%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%95"
    title: "ഗാമിനി ഫൊൻസേക"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamini_Fonseka"
    title: "Gamini Fonseka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B0%2C_%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8"
    title: "Фонсека, Гамини"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%9C%E0%B7%8F%E0%B6%B8%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%AB%E0%B7%93_%E0%B7%86%E0%B7%9C%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%8A%E0%B7%83%E0%B7%9A%E0%B6%9A%E0%B7%8F"
    title: "ගාමිණී ෆොන්සේකා"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3522495"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1295038"
    title: "Gamini Fonseka"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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