# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/silk-smitha
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:33:22.337Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/silk-smitha"
name: "Silk Smitha"
slug: "silk-smitha"
description: "Vadlapati Vijayalakshmi, better known by her stage name  Silk Smitha, was an Indian actress and dancer who worked in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi films. She became one of India's most popular sex symbols of the 1980s and early 1990s, as well as one of the most sought-after erotic actresses in South Indian cinema in the 1980s. Smitha was a key figure in the Malayalam softcore film genre in the late 1980s."
tagline: "Indian actress (1960-1996)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/Silk_Smitha.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: "1960-12-02"
deathDate: "1996-09-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           58.57
  momentum:             11.42124801131342
  historical:           20.488912
  currentAttention:     30
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  231
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0810426/"
    handle:    "nm0810426"
sources:
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    title: "西麗克·史密莎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Silk Smitha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سيلك سميثا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سيلك سميثا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "চিল্ক স্মিতা"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سیلک سمیتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "সিল্ক স্মিতা"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Silk Smitha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سیلک سمیتا"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "सिल्क स्मिता"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "സിൽക്ക് സ്മിത"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "सिल्क स्मिता"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Silk Smitha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ਸਿਲਕ ਸਮਿਥਾ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ᱥᱤᱞᱠ ᱥᱢᱤᱛᱷᱟ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "සිල්ක් ස්මිතා"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سلک اسمتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Silk Smitha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "సిల్క్ స్మిత"
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    title: "سلک اسمتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1749508"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/584265"
    title: "Silk Smitha"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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