# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sivaji-ganesan
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:22:31.783Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/sivaji-ganesan"
name: "Sivaji Ganesan"
slug: "sivaji-ganesan"
description: "Villupuram Chinnaiya Manrayar Ganesamoorthy, better known by his stage name Sivaji Ganesan, was an Indian actor and film producer. He was mainly active in Tamil cinema and theatre during the latter half of the 20th century. Sivaji Ganesan is acknowledged as one of the greatest Indian actors of all time and among the most imitated one by other actors. He was known for his versatility and the variety of roles he depicted on screen, which also gave him the Tamil nickname Nadigar Thilagam. In a career that spanned close to five decades, he acted in 288 films in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi. Sivaji Ganesan is the only actor in Tamil cinema to have played the lead role in over 250 films."
tagline: "Indian stage and film actor (1928-2001)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sivaji_Ganesan_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
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birthDate: "1928-10-01"
deathDate: "2001-07-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump