Sangeetha Weeraratne
| Sangeetha Weeraratne සංගීතා වීරරත්න |
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| Born |
Sangeetha Weeraratne 13 December 1973 Negombo, Sri Lanka |
| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
| Occupation | Actor, Director, Producer, Model |
| Years active | 1990 – present |
| Spouse(s) | Roshantha Kariyapperuma |
| Awards | Sarasaviya Best Actress Award (2001) and Sarasaviya Most Popular Actress Award (2001–2003, 2006) |
Sangeetha Weeraratne (born in December 13, 1973 as [Sinhala]) is an award-winning Sri Lankan actress in the Sri Lankan cinema and television. She made her debut as a sixteen-year-old with Roy de Silva's It's a Matter of Time opposite Kamal Addararachchi in 1990. However, she earned immense popularity only after performing in H.D. Premaratne's Saptha Kanya, also opposite Kamal Addararachchi in 1993. It was a huge success and she won the Sarasaviya Best Newcomer Award that year. Since then she has acted in over 50 movies and is regarded as one of the most successful stars of the Sri Lankan film industry.
Sangeetha Weeraratne was born as the second daughter of renowned cinematographer Timothy Weeraratne and his wife Daisy. She had her primary education at St. John's College Panadura and then moved on to Methodist College, Colombo for her secondary studies.
She has an elder sister, Nayanatara Weeraratne who currently lives in Australia. Sangeetha married to a businessman, Roshantha Kariyapperuma in 2002.
Sangeetha made her debut in to the silver screen through the renowned director Roy de Silva with his film It's a Matter of Time in 1991. She had the rare fortune of mingling with some of the popular stars of the time, such as Malini Fonseka, Vijaya Kumaratunga, Gamini Fonseka and Roy de Silva.
She was only a teenager, when director Roy De Silva got a glimpse of her talent and encouraged her to join films.
In 2001, Weeraratne won the Sarasaviya Best Actress Award for her role as Guneris' wife in Aswesuma directed by Bennet Ratnayake. She was also crowned the Sarasaviya Most Popular Actress for three consecutive years from 2001–03.
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