# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sukumari
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:47:14.537Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sukumari"
name: "Sukumari"
slug: "sukumari"
description: "Sukumari was an Indian actress best known for her works in Malayalam and Tamil films. In a career spanning more than five decades, she appeared in more than 2,500 films predominantly in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, along with a few Hindi and one each in Sinhala, French, Italian, Bengali, Tulu, English and Kannada films. Sukumari began acting at the age of 10. In 2003, she was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India for her contributions toward the arts. She won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the Tamil film Namma Gramam (2010). Sukumari died on 26 March 2013 in Chennai, following a heart attack."
tagline: "Indian film actress (1940–2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sukumari_at_kollam.JPG?width=1200"
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: "1940-10-06"
deathDate: "2013-03-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15.75035197103781
  historical:           14.03905066666667
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  228
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0837797"
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    url:       "http://sukumari.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump