Actor

Malini Fonseka

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Movies: 24Series: 0

TMDB ID: 1203649

IMDb ID: nm0284717

Known for: Acting

Born: April 30, 1947

Died: May 24, 2025

Age: 78

Place of birth: Colombo, Sri Lanka

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1963 - 2025

Years active: 63

Wikidata: Q6743748

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Biography

Wanniarachchige Malini Senehelatha Fonseka, popularly as Malini Fonseka (Sinhala:මාලිනී ෆොන්සේකා) (born 30 April 1947, in Kelaniya) is a Sri Lankan film actress and former member of Sri Lanka Parliament, who became known as the "Queen of Sinhalese cinema". Her cinema career that has spanned seven decades began with Tissa Liyansooriya's Punchi Baba in 1968. She first became widely known when she won the 'Best Actress Award' at the 1969 National State Drama Festival This was followed by Sarasaviya Best Actress Awards for Hingana Kolla in 1980, Aradhana in 1982 and Yasa Isuru in 1983. In 2010, she was named by CNN as one of Asia's 25 greatest film actors of all time.

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