# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melinda-shankar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:24:18.983Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melinda-shankar"
name: "Melinda Shankar"
slug: "melinda-shankar"
description: "Melinda Leanna Shankar is a Canadian actress. She is best known for starring as Alli Bhandari in the television series Degrassi: The Next Generation (2008–2015) and as Indira \"Indie\" Mehta in the YTV series How To Be Indie (2009–2011), for which she won several awards, including a Canadian Screen Award in 2013. Her last screen credit was the female lead role of Sarah in the 2025 Air Canada and Ottawa Tourism's YouTube channel Christmas show, Magic On Set."
tagline: "Canadian actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Melinda_Shankar_at_2013_Canadian_Screen_Awards_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1992-02-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             9.012389493709332
  historical:           10.18863466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/melindashankar"
    handle:    "melindashankar"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3159020/"
    handle:    "nm3159020"
sources:
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    title: "میلنڈا شنکر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مليندا شانكار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مليندا شانكار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Melinda Shankar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Μελίντα Σανκάρ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Melinda Shankar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melinda_Shankar"
    title: "Melinda Shankar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melinda_Shankar"
    title: "Melinda Shankar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Melinda Shankar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump