# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/living-smile-vidya
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:03:36.878Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/living-smile-vidya"
name: "Living Smile Vidya"
slug: "living-smile-vidya"
description: "Living Smile Vidya, or Smiley, is an Indian actress, assistant director, writer, and trans and Dalit rights activist from Chennai. Her autobiography 'I am Vidya' has been translated into seven languages and made into a feature film that won several National Film Awards. She also made history as the first trans woman in India to have her chosen gender identity reflected in her passport."
tagline: "Indian actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Living_smile_Vidya_Profile.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "trans woman"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1982-03-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.2
  momentum:             1.908713692946058
  historical:           6.210332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "زندہ مسکراہٹ ودیا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "লিভিং স্মাইল বিদ্যা"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "लिविंग स्माइल विद्या"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "লিভিং স্মাইল বিদ্যা"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Smile_Vidya"
    title: "Living Smile Vidya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE"
    title: "लिविंग स्माइल विद्या"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "लिविंग स्माइल विद्या"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29415640"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Living Smile Vidya"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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