Malini Fonseka
Actor
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
Changes in the Village
1963
The Wasps Are Here
as Helen 1978
The Treasure
as Irene Abeynayake 1972
Flowers of the Sky
as Sandya Rani 2008
Mansion by the Lake
as Sujata Rajasuriya, the widow 2002
Ayu
as Nishmi's Mother 2025
Abá
as Baddhakachchana 2008
Sarigama
as Nun 2016
Mihidum Sihina
1982
Pilot Premnath
1978
Little Angel
as Sinhala Teacher 2002
The Secret
as Lover 1971
Malaki Duwe Numba
as Grandma 2025
Little Miss Puppet
as School Principal 2020
Thushara
1973
Night of Destiny
1998