# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rukmani-devi
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:40:25.708Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rukmani-devi"
name: "Rukmani Devi"
slug: "rukmani-devi"
description: "Daisy Rasammah Daniels, known popularly as Rukmani Devi was a Sri Lankan film actress and singer who was often acclaimed as \"The Nightingale of Sri Lanka\". She made it to the silver screen via the stage and had acted in close to 100 films at the time of her death. Having an equal passion for singing as well as a melodious voice, she was Sri Lanka's foremost female singer in the gramophone era. She was posthumously awarded the Sarasaviya 'Rana Thisara'- Life Time Achievement Award at the 1979 Sarasaviya Awards Festival."
tagline: "Sri Lankan actress (1923–1978)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rukmani_Devi_sings.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1923-01-15"
deathDate: "1978-09-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.15
  momentum:             1.182669789227166
  historical:           7.301046666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0222483/"
    handle:    "nm0222483"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "روكمانى ديڤى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rukmani Devi"
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    title: "روکمانی دوی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rukmani_Devi"
    title: "Rukmani Devi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%94%E0%B6%9A%E0%B7%8A%E0%B6%B8%E0%B6%AB%E0%B7%93_%E0%B6%AF%E0%B7%9A%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%93"
    title: "රුක්මණී දේවී"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ருக்மணி தேவி (நடிகை)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%A3%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF"
    title: "రుక్మణి దేవి"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DA%A9%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C_%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C"
    title: "رکمانی دیوی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3524816"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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