1980Nominee
Best Performance
Baddegama
Malini Fonseka
Actor
Colombo, Sri Lanka
April 30, 1947
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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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2016Winner
Best Performance
Sarigama
2008Nominee
Best Performance
Flowers of the Sky
Career Highlights
2025Highlight
Best Performance
Malaki Duwe Numba
1979Highlight
Best Performance
Muwan Pelessa