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'''Wanniarachchige Malini Senehelatha Fonseka''', popularly as '''Malini Fonseka''' ([[Sinhala language|Sinhala]]:මාලිනී ෆොන්සේකා) (born 30 April 1947, in [[Kelaniya]]) is a [[Cinema of Sri Lanka|Sri Lankan film]] actress and former member of [[Sri Lanka Parliament]], who became known as the '''"Queen of Sinhalese cinema"'''.<ref>[http://www.dailymirror.lk/2006/09/18/life/2.asp Malani leaves for London]</ref> 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 Award]]s for ''Hingana Kolla'' in 1980, ''Aradhana'' in 1982 and ''Yasa Isuru'' in 1983.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0284717/bio|title=Biography for Malani Fonseka|work=IMDb|access-date=19 June 2008}}</ref> She has won the Slim Nielsen Peoples' Award for the Most Popular Actress for a record twelve times in a row.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Malini's unique record |url=http://www.sarasaviya.lk/news/2021/04/08/20230/මාලිනීගේ-අසමසම-වාර්තාව |archive-date=2021-04-04 |access-date=2021-04-04 |website=Sarasaviya}}</ref> In 2010, she was named by [[CNN]] as one of Asia's 25 greatest film actors of all time.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/none/asias-25-greatest-actors-all-time-223697 |title=CNNGo – Asia's 25 greatest actors of all time |access-date=7 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104064938/http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/none/asias-25-greatest-actors-all-time-223697 |archive-date=4 November 2012 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
==Biography==
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