Malini Fonseka

Born: 1947-04-30

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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Village in the Jungle

as Punchi Menika
Released: 1980-01-01

Baddegama or, more correctly, Beddegama is a 1980 award winning Sinhalese language film directed...

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Pilot Premnath

as uncredited
Released: 1978-10-29

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Changes in the Village

as uncredited
Released: 1963-07-21

Piyal is a handsome young teacher who is hired to teach English to Nanda, a member of a high...

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The Wasps Are Here

as Helen
Released: 1978-08-11

Set in a fishing village named Kalpitiya, this movie explores tradition and exploitation because...

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Flowers of the Sky

as Sandya Rani
Released: 2008-01-01

A Silver screen idol of yesteryear a faded star today. In the web of a scandal the limelight is...

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Abá

as Baddhakachchana
Released: 2008-08-08

The childhood story of king Pandukabhaya (474 BC - 367 BC), the 6th monarch of Sri Lanka.

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Ayu

as Nishmi's Mother
Released: 2020-07-19

After getting in a car accident, a pregnant woman discovers a deadly secret about her life that...

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The Treasure

as Irene Abeynayake
Released: 1973-01-01

Based on a short story written by G.B. Senanayake in one of his short story collection known as...

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The Secret

as Lover
Released: 1971-08-04

Abirahasa is the 231st movie in Sinhala cinema.

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Mansion by the Lake

as Sujata Rajasuriya, the widow
Released: 2002-09-25

Very loosely based on Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, Lester James Peries's MANSION BY THE...

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Little Angel

as Sinhala Teacher
Released: 2002-07-19

Punchi Suranganavi (Little Angel) is a 2002 Sri Lankan Sinhala children's film directed by...

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