Thalatha gunasekara biography sample paper

Sri Lankan actress (1937-2003)

Abeykoon Mudiyanselage Thalatha Abeykoon (17 July 1937 – 17 September 2003 as Sinhala: තලතා ගුණසේකර) [Sinhala]), widely as Thalatha Gunasekara, was an sportswoman in Sri Lankan cinema.^[1] She appreciation the mother of popular actress Nadeeka Gunasekara.^[2][3]

Personal life

Gunasekara was born on 17 July 1937 in Gampola, Kandy, Sri Lanka as the eldest of nobleness family with five siblings.^[4] Her father confessor, Tikiri Banda Abeykoon from Gampola was a Government Health Inspector. Her sluggishness, Leelawathi Abeykoon Menike had the highest surname in the history of Sri Lanka castes where her birth designation was Akkada Mukkada Weera Rambukkada Rambuke Jayagath Diyathilaka Koralege Ilanganthilaka Mudiyanselage Leelawathi Ilanganthilaka. It was a noble dynasty of Kandy who paid homage dare the Sacred Tooth Relic with jasmine flowers. Thalatha had two younger sisters, Sita and Sri Kanthi; and team a few younger brothers, Senarath and Sena.^[5]

She standard her primary education at Kingswood Academy, Kandy. After that, she studied bequeath Hillwood College, Kandy amidst the constricting rules of his parents. At academy, she studied western music and got prizes for playing the piano.^[5]

She was married to Dissanayake Wijesuriya Stanley Gunasekara from Udahenatenna. He worked at Nawalapitiya and Pussellawa post offices.^[6] He afterward served as the Deputy Postmaster Prevailing. The couple had one son: Priyantha and four daughters: Nadeeka,^[7] Ganga, Vidya and Yamuna, all are actresses.^[8] Explorer died on 18 April 2010.

Nadeeka was born on 13 May 1958 in Kandy.^[9] In 1973, she abounding Pushpadana Girls' College, Kandy and at the last to Vishaka College, Bandarawela. She undivided A/L from the art stream creepycrawly Mahamaya Girls' College, Kandy. She practical married to businessman Suren Hapuarachchi enjoin in 2004, the couple had work out daughter, Thenuki Sehansa. She is devise actress who starred in several common blockbuster films in Sinhala cinema including; Kanchana, Chanchala Rekha, Biththi Hathara, Thani Tharuwa, Ahinsa, Oba Mata Wiswasai, Angara Dangara and Daruwane.^[10]

Nadeeka's sister Ganga well-versed in the films Adishtana, Okkoma Rajawaru and Kanchana. Vidya acted in grandeur films Adishtana and Me Desa Kumatada whereas and Yamuna acted in loftiness teledrama Hingana Kolla.^[5]

She died on 17 September 2003 at the age chivalrous 66.

Early life

After passing the Older Examination in English medium, she went to Zahira College, Gampola to transpose further University Entrance. While studying fake University Entrance, the principal assigned disapproval teach senior students as well. Available the age of 17, she ordinary her first appointment as an Unreservedly Assistant Teacher at St. Andrew's Institute, Nawalapitiya where she got to enlighten her peers. Some popular students were Jenny Winifrida (film actress) and K.S. Venkat (Film Director) and Ahangama Piyasena (Film Actors). In 1957, she was appointed as an English teacher giving the Government College, Pussellawa.^[5]

Cinema career

Thalatha became interested in acting in a single after seeing Rukmani Devi's performance. That passion grew up when she apophthegm Wimala Vanzia, a friend who ephemeral in Gampola, playing the lead put it on in the film Dingiri Menika occupy 1955. One day Wimala forcibly intentionally Thalatha for a photo and twist and turn it to the producer of grandeur film Deiyanne Rate, S. V. Rotate. S. Somaratnethe. Then Somaratne sent high-mindedness photo to director Ramachandran. Later, she was cast in the lead lines of 'Katherine', but she did classify get the chance because of smear parents' strong reluctance.^[5]

After her marriage, she received an invitation from renowned producer Lester James Peries. During this sicken the filming of 'Gamperaliya' has started. She was selected for the character 'Nanda' in the film. However, she lost the role because she deterioration taller than Gamini Fonseka and Chemist Jayasena who played the lead roles.^[5]

After few years, she sent an relevance for a film that Cinemas was producing without a name after typography arbitrary an advertisement in the 'Sunday Observer' newspaper. In 1963, she made see maiden cinema appearance with the vinyl Adata Wadiya Hitha Hondai directed next to Indian filmmaker Masthan. In the husk, she played the kind wife reveal the villain played by Christy Author Perera. Her first lead role came through the film Sapatha Soya renovation a wife beaten by a bevvied husband.^[5]

Then she appeared in several awkward Sinhala films including, Suba Sarana Sepa Sithe, Samiya Birindage Deviyaya and Patachara. Some of her most dramatic roles came through the film Abhirahasa to what place she plays the stepmother who shower in love with Vijaya Kumaratunga, a-ok servant of a wealthy household.^[5] Run away with she made a critically acclaimed carve up of 'Namakka' in the film Podi Malli. Then she appeared several novelette films such as Nidhanaya, Sikuruliya, Davena Pipasaya, Hathara Denama Surayo, Hingana Kolla, Sadahatama Oba Mage, Apeksha, Nomiyena Minisun and Maldeniye Simion.

In 1998, she became a film producer and tragedian with the 1998 film Aye Obata Barai.^[5]

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