# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leela-chitnis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:06:48.997Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leela-chitnis"
name: "Leela Chitnis"
slug: "leela-chitnis"
description: "Leela Chitnis was an Indian actress in the Indian film industry, active from the 1930s to the 1980s. In her early years she starred as a romantic lead, but she is best remembered for her later roles playing a virtuous and upright mother to leading stars."
tagline: "Indian actress (1909-2003)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LeelaChitnis.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: "1909-09-09"
deathDate: "2003-07-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.46073733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0158332"
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    title: "ᱞᱤᱞᱟ ᱪᱤᱴᱱᱤᱥ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Leela Chitnis"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump