# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shoba
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:07:36.098Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shoba"
name: "Shoba"
slug: "shoba"
description: "Mahalakshmi Menon, known by her stagename Shobha, was an Indian actress best known for her work in Malayalam and Tamil films. At the age of 17, she won the National Film Award for Best Actress for her role in the 1979 Tamil film Pasi. She also received three Kerala State Film Awards: for Best Actress (1978), Best Supporting Actress (1977) and Best Child Artist (1971); and two Filmfare Awards South for Best Actress in Kannada (1978) and Tamil (1979) films. Considered one of the finest talents to have emerged in the Indian film world, her promising career was cut short as she committed suicide in 1980, for unknown reasons. Her popularity resulted in considerable public scrutiny of the events that led to her death and also various conspiracy theories. The 1983 Malayalam film Lekhayude Maranam Oru Flashback is supposedly based on her life and death."
tagline: "Indian actress (1962-1980)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/85/Shoba_actress.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1962-09-23"
deathDate: "1980-05-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.84
  momentum:             1.993772934504615
  historical:           12.92162933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1685564/"
    handle:    "nm1685564"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%A8%DA%BE%D8%A7_(%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%81)"
    title: "شوبھا (اداکارہ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7"
    title: "شوبا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BE_(%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A7%B0%E0%A7%80)"
    title: "শোভা (অভিনেত্ৰী)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BE"
    title: "শোভা"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoba"
    title: "Shoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7"
    title: "شوبا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoba"
    title: "Shoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoba"
    title: "Shoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%90"
    title: "ショーバ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B6%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%AD"
    title: "ശോഭ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE_(%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80)"
    title: "शोभा (अभिनेत्री)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://new.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE"
    title: "शोभा"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%BC%E0%A9%8B%E0%A8%AC%E0%A8%BE"
    title: "ਸ਼ੋਬਾ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B7%E0%AF%8B%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BE"
    title: "ஷோபா"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B6%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%AD_(%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%9F%E0%B0%BF)"
    title: "శోభ (నటి)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1891741"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/585322"
    title: "Shoba"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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