Sigi Wimala

Who is Sigi Wimala?

Sigi Wimala Somya Dewi, more popularly known as Sigi Wimala, is an Indonesian model and actress.

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 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 at Museum Nasional and Singkawang Jade of Equator 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. Sigi gave birth to a daughter, Maxine Sara - Tjahjanto, and resides in Jakarta.