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| birth_date = c. 1925
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| death_date = 10 February 2001 (aged 76)
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'''K. Thavamani Devi''' (c. 1925 – 10 February 2001)<ref name="Biography">{{cite web|last = மூனா|title = கடந்து வந்த நமது சினிமா - 2|work = Latest|language=Tamil|publisher = Manaosai|date = 2009-07-23|url = http://www.manaosai.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=219:-2-&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=29|accessdate = 2014-05-14}}</ref> was a [[Cinema of Sri Lanka|Sri Lanka]]n actress who also worked in a number of [[Tamil cinema|Tamil films]] during the 1940s.<ref name=thavamani>{{cite news|last=Guy|first=Randor|title=Blast from the Past — Vana Mohini 1941|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/Blast-from-the-Past-Vana-Mohini-1941/article13907193.ece|accessdate=15 November 2017|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=28 May 2011|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116174930/http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/Blast-from-the-Past-Vana-Mohini-1941/article13907193.ece|archivedate=2017-01-16|url-status=dead}}</ref> Born and brought up at a wealthy family in [[Jaffna city|Jaffna]], [[Sri Lanka]] her father was a successful barrister. Encouraged by parents, Thavamani moved to [[Madras]], India at an early age.<ref name=thavamani/> She was from [[Sri Lanka]]n [[Tamil people|Tamil]] heritage.

During her time in Madras, she learnt [[Bharata Natyam]] and [[Carnatic music]], which helped her sing her own lines in many Tamil films. owing to her singing talents won her the honorific "Ceylon Kuyil" ({{lang-en|(lit.) Ceylon Cuckoo}}).<ref name=thavamani/> She was [[MGR]]'s heroine in ''[[Rajakumaari]]'' (1947).<ref>{{cite web|title=Thavamani Devi |url=http://www.jointscene.com/kollywood-actress/thavamani_devi.html |work=Jointscene |publisher=Joint Scene Ltd |accessdate=27 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100724032438/http://www.jointscene.com/kollywood-actress/thavamani_devi.html |archivedate=24 July 2010 }}</ref> Some of the other films that she did in Tamil include ''[[Shakuntala (1940 film)|Shakuntala]]'', ''[[Vana Mohini]]'', ''Naatiya Rani'', ''Krishna Kumar'' and ''Bhakta Kaalathi''

==Later Years==
She married a widower, Kodilinga Sankara Sastry of [[Rameshwaram]], in November 1962 and retired to a spiritual life.<ref>[http://sangam.org/mgr-remembered-part-10/ MGR Remembered series by Sachi Sri Kantha, August 2013] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160908072912/http://sangam.org/mgr-remembered-part-10/ |date=2016-09-08 }} "I married a widower Kodilinga Sastri in November 1962, and live here now forgetting my past connection to the movie world."</ref>

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