# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/madina-nalwanga
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:07:05.987Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/madina-nalwanga"
name: "Madina Nalwanga"
slug: "madina-nalwanga"
description: "Madina Nalwanga is a Ugandan actress known for her lead role as Phiona Mutesi in Queen of Katwe (2016). The film depicts the life of Mutesi, a Ugandan girl living in a slum in Katwe who learns to play chess and becomes a Woman Candidate Master. This role earned her the Most Promising Actor award at 2017 Africa Movie Academy Awards in Lagos, Nigeria. She also won an NAACP Image Award, a Women Film Critics Circle Award, and was nominated for a Critic's Choice Award."
tagline: "Ugandan actress"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "2000-02-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.21
  momentum:             10.42718655751831
  historical:           11.89831066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8136461/"
    handle:    "nm8136461"
sources:
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    title: "Madina Nalwanga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مادينا نالوانغا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مادينا نالوانجا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Madina Nalwanga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madina_Nalwanga"
    title: "Madina Nalwanga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madina_Nalwanga"
    title: "Madina Nalwanga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madina_Nalwanga"
    title: "Madina Nalwanga"
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    title: "Մադինա Նալվանգա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Madina Nalwanga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ln.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madina_Nalwanga"
    title: "Madina Nalwanga"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madina_Nalwanga"
    title: "Madina Nalwanga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madina_Nalwanga"
    title: "Madina Nalwanga"
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    title: "Madina Nalwanga"
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  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%81_%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "مدینہ نالوانگا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1683149"
    title: "Madina Nalwanga"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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