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10 Facts About Buddhi Wickrama

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Buddhisena Dayaratne Wickrama, popularly known as Buddhi Wickrama, was a Sri Lankan actor in cinema, theatre, and television.

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Buddhi Wickrama is most notable for the roles played in the television dramas Tharadevi, Suseema, Boomarangaya, and Amba Yahaluvo.

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Buddhi Wickrama's father worked in the Department of Posts, and he had one elder brother and two younger sisters.

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Buddhi Wickrama completed his primary education from Heenatigala Sariputhra College and his secondary education from Mahinda College.

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Buddhi Wickrama appeared in foreign films and serials such as The Village by the Sea, Good Marriages, The Greatest Gift, and Water.

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Buddhi Wickrama portrayed a friend of Gorin Mudalali in the film Welikathara, and as a robber in the film Haralakshaya.

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In 1975, Buddhi Wickrama married Irangani Wannakukorala and the couple had one daughter.

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Buddhi Wickrama then appeared in more than 40 television serials over two decades, including Kumarihami, Palingu Menike, Thara Devi, Doo Daruwo, Amba Yahaluvo, Gam Peraliya, Suseema, and Bawa Tharana as his final television appearance in 2012.

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Buddhi Wickrama later became confined to a wheelchair, and then bedridden after suffering a dislocated hip.

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Buddhi Wickrama was undergoing treatment at the General Hospital in Homagama at the time of his death.