Sigi Wimala Somya Dewi, more popularly known simply as Sigi Wimala (born June 21, 1983) is an Indonesian model and actress.

Career

In 1999, she won a cover girl contest, GADIS Sampul, a teen magazine in Indonesia. She later joined Elite Models and modeled in Hong Kong for a year. In 2015 the ''

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'' reported Sigi Wimala was "working on a new clothing line for Muslim women, featuring sportswear attached with hijabs". Sigi Wimala started her career on the big screen with a starring role in the box office hit ''Tentant Dia (About Her)'' directed by

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, which won Best New Coming Actress in Indonesian Movie Award 2007. She then starred in various features including two horror films, ''Macabre'' and ''Affair''. While she studied architecture at Tarumanegara University, she also took photography course. Her photographs were included in numerous group exhibitions such as ''Trowulan'' (2006) at the Museum Nasional (Jakarta) and ''Singkawang Jade of Equator'' (2010) at Galeri Salihara, together with artists such as Jay Subyakto, Yori Antar and Oscar Motuloh. She then came to directing a music video for

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, an Indonesian pop group and later on directed her first short film, ''Boy Crush'', produced by the Indonesian film director,

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Personal life

In 2009, she married

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from the Mo Brothers, film director. They met on the set of ''Macabre''. They quietly divorced in 2021.

Filmography

As actress

Feature films

* ' (2005) * '' ''(2005) * ' (2008) *' (2009) *''

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''(2009) * ''Affair'''' (2010) * ''Hi5teria'' (segment "Wayang Koelit") (2012) *' (2021)

Web series

* (2023)

As director

* "Friday" (RAN) music video * "Boy Crush", short film, 2009

Awards and nominations

References

External links

Articles about Wimala
at ''Fimela'' (Indonesian)
Management company
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