Kaushalya Fernando, is a Sri Lankan actress, director, producer and civil activist.
19 Facts About Kaushalya Fernando
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Kaushalya Fernando is the daughter of popular theatre director late Somalatha Subasinghe.
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Kaushalya Fernando's father Lionel was a civil servant and former ambassador.
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Kaushalya Fernando's mother Somalatha is a well-known dramatist and a theatre director.
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Kaushalya Fernando went to four schools, first Anula College, then Gothami Balika Vidyalaya and Sujatha College, finally St Paul's Girls School, Milagiriya.
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Kaushalya Fernando graduated from University of Colombo with an arts degree.
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Kaushalya Fernando accepted it and then continued with a postgraduate diploma in English language teaching.
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Kaushalya Fernando left the profession as a permanent staff member in 1999 and continued as a visiting lecturer.
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Kaushalya Fernando is married to Dr Chandana Aluthge and is a mother to twins, Haimi and Hans.
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Kaushalya Fernando's husband is working at the University of Colombo at the Department of Economics.
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Kaushalya Fernando had the talent for theater from childhood, where she first wrote and directed stage plays at the age of 8 with the encouragement of her teacher, Sunethra Sarachchandra.
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In 1979, Kaushalya Fernando experienced her first-ever stage role by accident as a last minute replacement in drama Punchi Apata Dang Therei directed by her mother and then a minor role in Vikurthi.
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In 1994 she acted in the play Antigony produced by her mother, where Kaushalya Fernando won the Best Actress award at the 1995 State Drama Festival.
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Kaushalya Fernando has acted few television dramas they become some memorable hits in Sri Lankan teledrama history.
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Kaushalya Fernando was worked as a lecturer on Drama and Arts at University of Performing Arts, Colombo and as an English teacher at the University of Sri Jayawardenepura.
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Kaushalya Fernando has produced three theater dramas up to 2019.
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Kaushalya Fernando is a clever sitarist, and studied Indian classical singing, Kandyan and Low Country dance forms.
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On 31 January 2019, Minister Mangala Samaraweera appointed a committee to initiate action to transform state media institutions to public broadcasting and television services, where Kaushalya Fernando was appointed as a member of that committee.
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Kaushalya Fernando rose to prominence and critically acclaimed through the films such as Sulanga Enu Pinisa, Bora Diya Pokuna and Akasa Kusum.