# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/malini-fonseka
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:36:40.892Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/malini-fonseka"
name: "Malini Fonseka"
slug: "malini-fonseka"
description: "Wanniarachchige Malini Senehelatha Fonseka, was a Sri Lankan actress, theatre artist, director and politician. Often dubbed the \"Queen of Sri Lankan Cinema\", her career spanned seven decades. Fonseka made her debut in Sri Lankan cinema with Tissa Liyansooriya's Punchi Baba in 1968, and later she was named by CNN as one of Asia's 25 greatest film actors of all time in 2010."
tagline: "Sri Lankan actor-politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Malani_Senehelatha_Fonseka.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1947-04-30"
deathDate: "2025-05-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.64
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.8405
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0284717/"
    handle:    "nm0284717"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.nfc.gov.lk/artist/malani-fonseka-133/"
sources:
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    title: "మాలిని ఫోన్సెకా"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مالينى فونسيكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Malini Fonseka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malini_Fonseka"
    title: "Malini Fonseka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Malini Fonseka"
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    title: "მალინი ფონსეკა"
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    title: "മാലിനി ഫൊൻസേക"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Фонсека, Малини"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "මාලිනී ෆොන්සේකා"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Malini Fonseka"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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