Malini Fonseka
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.
Village in the Jungle
as Punchi MenikaBaddegama or, more correctly, Beddegama is a 1980 award winning Sinhalese language film directed...
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Changes in the Village
as uncreditedPiyal 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 HelenSet in a fishing village named Kalpitiya, this movie explores tradition and exploitation because...
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Flowers of the Sky
as Sandya RaniA Silver screen idol of yesteryear a faded star today. In the web of a scandal the limelight is...
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Abá
as BaddhakachchanaThe childhood story of king Pandukabhaya (474 BC - 367 BC), the 6th monarch of Sri Lanka.
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Ayu
as Nishmi's MotherAfter getting in a car accident, a pregnant woman discovers a deadly secret about her life that...
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The Treasure
as Irene AbeynayakeBased on a short story written by G.B. Senanayake in one of his short story collection known as...
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Mansion by the Lake
as Sujata Rajasuriya, the widowVery loosely based on Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, Lester James Peries's MANSION BY THE...
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Little Angel
as Sinhala TeacherPunchi Suranganavi (Little Angel) is a 2002 Sri Lankan Sinhala children's film directed by...
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