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Malini Fonseka
Sri Lankan actress, filmmaker and politician
Wanniarachchige Malini Senehelatha Fonseka, popularly known as Malini Fonseka (Sinhala:මාලිනී ෆොන්සේකා) (born 30 April 1947, in Kelaniya, Sri Lanka) is a Sri Lankan actress, theatre artist and director.
Often considered the "Queen of Sri Lankan Cinema",[1][2] Fonseka first became widely known when she won the 'Best Actress Award' at the 1969 National State Drama Festival, followed by Sarasaviya Best Actress Awards for Hingana Kolla in 1980, Aradhana in 1982 andYasa Isuru in 1983.[3]
A veteran actress acting for a span of seven decades, she began her career in Sri Lankan cinema with Tissa Liyansooriya's Punchi Baba in 1968.
She has also made a record by winning the Slim Nielsen Peoples' Award for the Most Popular Actress twelve times in a row.[4] In 2010, she was named by CNN as one of Asia's 25 greatest film actors of all time.[5]
She is a former Minister