Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1947-04-30
Day of Death
2025-05-24
Place of Birth
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Malini Fonseka
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.
Filmography (25)
Malaki Duwe Numba
2025
Ayu
2025
Bhavatharana
2021
Little Miss Puppet
2020
Sarigama
2016
Abá
2008
Flowers of the Sky
2008
Elegy For A Mother
2006
Mansion by the Lake
2002
Little Angel
2002
Night of Destiny
1998
Mihidum Sihina
1982
Aradhana
1981
Soldadu Unnahe
1981
