Overview

• She died on June 30, 2025, of liver failure at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, her daughter, Marisa Zamparelli, said.
• After winning Miss Ceylon, she placed second runner-up at the first televised Miss Universe pageant in 1955, elevating Sri Lanka’s visibility.
• Hingert portrayed a royal wife in 1956’s The King and I and later took substantive roles as Native American characters in Gun Fever (1958) and Gunmen From Laredo (1959).
• She began her film career in her home country with Circus Girl and Elephant Walk in 1954 and later secured a Universal contract, appearing in Westerns such as Pillars of the Sky.
• Stepping away from acting in the early 1960s to raise her three daughters with designer Mario Armond Zamparelli, she is remembered through family-led tributes.