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Sangeetha Weeraratne is a Actor born on 13 december 1973

Sangeetha Weeraratne

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Birth 13 december 1973 (50 years)
Awards Sarasaviya Best Actress Award, Sarasaviya Most Popular Actress Award

Sangeetha Weeraratne (born December 13, 1973) is an award-winning actress in the Sri Lankan cinema. 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.

Biography

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.
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Sangeetha Weeraratne (7 films)

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Actress

Uppalawanna
Uppalawanna (2007)

Actors Sangeetha Weeraratne
Rating68% 3.4334053.4334053.4334053.4334053.433405
Set during the 1987-89 JVP Insurrection, Ratnapala (Jagath Chaminda), a student at the University of Colombo and former member of the JVP, comes to visit his mother in Anuradhapura. He is killed by a former comrade (Roshan Ravindra) on the basis of leaking JVP secrets to the Sri Lankan government. The comrade sustains serious injuries from this encounter.
Mille Soya
Mille Soya (2004)
, 1h50
Directed by Boodee Keerthisena
Origin Sri Lanka
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Jackson Anthony, Sanath Gunathilake, Sangeetha Weeraratne, Kamal Addararachchi
Roles Princy
Rating76% 3.8182253.8182253.8182253.8182253.818225
This film narrates about a group of young Sri Lankan musicians illegally migrating to Italy in the baggage compartment of a bus. The film articulates the lost dreams of Sri Lankan Youth that are caught between Sri Lankan civil war and corrupt politics and follows through their journey into hope.
Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor
Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor (1997)
, 1h35
Directed by Kevin Connor
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Geraldine Chaplin, Keene Curtis, Helena Carroll, William Katt, Ravindra Randeniya, Sangeetha Weeraratne
Roles Subashini
Rating62% 3.142833.142833.142833.142833.14283
In mid-1940s Calcutta, Mother Teresa teaches geography at her convent. One day, she and one of the other sisters go outside the convent to find food for their girls, only to get caught up in a riot. Though they manage to make it back to the convent, Mother Teresa is shocked by the sight of the massive number of people starving in the streets. Haunted by the images of the hungry people, Mother Teresa decides to leave the convent to devote her life to caring for the poorest of the poor.
Seven Virgins
Seven Virgins (1993)

Directed by H. D. Premaratne
Genres Crime, Romance
Actors Kamal Addararachchi, Sangeetha Weeraratne, Tony Ranasinghe, Hemasiri Liyanage
Roles Deepthi
Rating73% 3.67923.67923.67923.67923.6792
Akhil Ruwanwalla, (Kamal Addararachchi) a young photographer meets beautiful Deepthi (Sangeetha Weeraratne) in a pub. They become friends and later the friendship turns into love. Meanwhile, Akhil gets beaten by a set of gangsters and his camera is also stolen. It is revealed that the camera consisted of Deepthi's photos, which were taken by Akhil. Roni Kalupahana,(Hemasiri Liyanage) Akhil 's roommate is a newspaper editor, who is keen to write about truth, even if that means death for him. He writes about Akhil's incident as well and reveals information about groups who are behind such acts. Shocking his friends, he is soon murdered by the same groups. Anil and Deepthi's love affair grows and Akhil is enthusiastic about marrying her, although she is not. Akhil decides to open a new studio with his friend Jagath Wickremasinghe (Jayalath Manoratne) and he is financially assisted by Deepthi. On the day of the opening ceremony of this studio, Police comes to meet Akhil with a set of photos. He is told to identify the faces, of those whom he has encountered before. In the set of photos, he sees Dabare's (Tony Ranasinghe) photo, that is the leader of the gang who beat him up, while ago, as well as surprisingly Deepthi's photo. Unable to comprehend this, and to avoid Deepthi from being caught to the police for whatever crime she had committed, Akhil lies to the police, saying that he does not know any. But, the vigilant Police is too quick to determine that the Camera, that Deepthi had gifted Akhil, few minutes ago, was a stolen one. Akhil is about to be taken to the Police, when Deepthi discloses everything about her connections with the Dabare gang and her job as a female Pickpocket. Both, Akhil and Deepthi are taken to the Police, immediately. Akhil is free to go, but Deepthi is send to jail for two long years. Amidst all this, Akhil is not dejected as he still feels that he loves Deepthi, the same way.