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Vimala Raman

Australian actress and model

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ3532965
Source-derived summary

Vimala Raman is an Australian actress and former model who has worked in Indian cinema. She appears in Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada language films. Born and brought up in Australia, she made her debut in 2006 with the Tamil film Poi. An established Bharatanatyam dancer and a graduate in B.Sc Information Systems from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Raman had also won the title of Miss India Australia in 2004

Career

In February 2016, she acted in the Malayalam film Oppam, along with actor Mohanlal.

Editorial summary

“Vimala Raman” enters the record as australian actress and model. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Vimala, Raman and Australian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2004, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1980-01-23. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Vimala, Raman and Australian.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Vimala Raman” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Vimala, Raman and Australian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3532965. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2004 and 2016.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Vimala Raman”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Vimala Raman primary sources, Vimala Raman archive and Vimala research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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This entry incorporates text from Vimala Raman” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.