Sigi Wimala

Indonesian Model and Actress

Profile 
Birth name             Sigi Wimala Somya Dewi
Popular name         Sigi Wimala
Birth date               June 21, 1983
Birth place             Jakarta, Indonesia
Occupation            Model and Actress


Biography
Sigi Wimala Somya Dewi more popularly known as Sigi Wimala, is an Indonesian model and actress. Sigi is a daughter of the couple Kuswardono and T Kusumawadini and she is also the old sister of Miss Indonesia 2006, Agni Pratistha Arkadewi.

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. Sigi started her career on the big screen with a starring role in the box office hit Tentang Dia (About Her) directed by Rudy Soedjarwo, which won Best New Coming Actress in Indonesian Movie Award 2007. 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 Museum Nasional and Singkawang Jade of Equator (2010) at Galeri Salihara, together with artists such as Jay Subijakto, Yori Antar and Oscar Motuloh. She then came to directing a music video for RAN , an Indonesian pop group and later on directed her first short film, Boy Crush, produced by an award-winning Indonesian film director, Garin Nugroho. In 2009, she married Timo Tjahjanto from the Mo Brothers, film director. They met on the set of Macabre (2010 film). Sigi gave birth to a daughter, Maxine Sara - Tjahjanto, and resides in Jakarta.