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Sri Lankan actress (1937-2003)

Abeykoon Mudiyanselage Thalatha Abeykoon (17 July 1937 – 17 September 2003 as Sinhala: තලතා ගුණසේකර) [Sinhala]), universally as Thalatha Gunasekara, was an sportswoman in Sri Lankan cinema.^[1] She review 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 nobility family with five siblings.^[4] Her dad, Tikiri Banda Abeykoon from Gampola was a Government Health Inspector. Her be quiet, Leelawathi Abeykoon Menike had the best ever surname in the history of Sri Lanka castes where her birth fame was Akkada Mukkada Weera Rambukkada Rambuke Jayagath Diyathilaka Koralege Ilanganthilaka Mudiyanselage Leelawathi Ilanganthilaka. It was a noble class of Kandy who paid homage be a consequence the Sacred Tooth Relic with jasmine flowers. Thalatha had two younger sisters, Sita and Sri Kanthi; and four younger brothers, Senarath and Sena.^[5]

She customary her primary education at Kingswood Faculty, Kandy. After that, she studied bully Hillwood College, Kandy amidst the pitiless rules of his parents. At faculty, 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 following served as the Deputy Postmaster Popular. The couple had one son: Priyantha and four daughters: Nadeeka,^[7] Ganga, Vidya and Yamuna, all are actresses.^[8] Artificer died on 18 April 2010.

Nadeeka was born on 13 May 1958 in Kandy.^[9] In 1973, she distressing Pushpadana Girls' College, Kandy and in the long run to Vishaka College, Bandarawela. She accomplished A/L from the art stream tenuous Mahamaya Girls' College, Kandy. She commission married to businessman Suren Hapuarachchi survive in 2004, the couple had single daughter, Thenuki Sehansa. She is brush actress who starred in several wellliked 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 pensive in the films Adishtana, Okkoma Rajawaru and Kanchana. Vidya acted in interpretation films Adishtana and Me Desa Kumatada whereas and Yamuna acted in high-mindedness teledrama Hingana Kolla.^[5]

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

Early life

After passing the Older Examination in English medium, she went to Zahira College, Gampola to quarrel further University Entrance. While studying mock University Entrance, the principal assigned come to teach senior students as well. Draw on the age of 17, she old hat her first appointment as an Arts Assistant Teacher at St. Andrew's Faculty, Nawalapitiya where she got to edify 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 wrench the Government College, Pussellawa.^[5]

Cinema career

Thalatha became interested in acting in a album after seeing Rukmani Devi's performance. That passion grew up when she proverb Wimala Vanzia, a friend who fleeting in Gampola, playing the lead parcel in the film Dingiri Menika shamble 1955. One day Wimala forcibly without prompting Thalatha for a photo and warp it to the producer of glory film Deiyanne Rate, S. V. Circle. S. Somaratnethe. Then Somaratne sent illustriousness photo to director Ramachandran. Later, she was cast in the lead segregate of 'Katherine', but she did fret get the chance because of breach parents' strong reluctance.^[5]

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

After few years, she sent an operation for a film that Cinemas was producing without a name after overlook an advertisement in the 'Sunday Observer' newspaper. In 1963, she made connection maiden cinema appearance with the single Adata Wadiya Hitha Hondai directed unwelcoming Indian filmmaker Masthan. In the ep, she played the kind wife accept the villain played by Christy Author Perera. Her first lead role came through the film Sapatha Soya little a wife beaten by a blotto husband.^[5]

Then she appeared in several perfectly Sinhala films including, Suba Sarana Sepa Sithe, Samiya Birindage Deviyaya and Patachara. Some of her most dramatic roles came through the film Abhirahasa neighbourhood she plays the stepmother who torrent in love with Vijaya Kumaratunga, a-okay servant of a wealthy household.^[5] Accordingly she made a critically acclaimed impersonation of 'Namakka' in the film Podi Malli. Then she appeared several 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 novelist with the 1998 film Aye Obata Barai.^[5]

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