Ravindra Randeniya rose to fame in Lester James Peries's film Desa Nisa in 1975, and was a popular actor during the 1970s and 1980s; Ravindra Randeniya won the Sarasaviya Best Actor Award in 1984,1985,1989, and 1990.
16 Facts About Ravindra Randeniya
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Ravindra Randeniya was born in Dalugama, Kelaniya Sri Lanka on 5 June 1945 as the second child in a family with 6 siblings.
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Ravindra Randeniya has one elder brother: Callistus, two younger sisters: Gertie, Helen, and two younger brothers: Amal and Shantha.
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Ravindra Randeniya instead joined his family business of manufacturing hardware products.
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Ravindra Randeniya appreciated nature growing up often spending evenings looking over the fields; he was an avid reader from a young age immersing himself in the works of acclaimed Sinhala authors like Martin Wickremasinghe, Prof.
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Ravindra Randeniya is married to fellow actress Preethi Pramila Seneviratne, and the wedding ceremony was celebrated on 31 October 1974.
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Preethi Ravindra Randeniya is a poet and an author of children's books.
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Ravindra Randeniya gave priority to studies over art and at school, he acted as 'Kashyapa' in the school play Sigiriya Kashyapa.
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Ravindra Randeniya excelled in writing short stories and won the first prize in the short story competition organized by the College Literary Society in 1962.
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Ravindra Randeniya became interested in acting while taking a required general acting class under Dhamma Jagoda; he gradually became fascinated with the idea of acting over the two years he spent at the school.
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Ravindra Randeniya joined the Lionel Wendt Art Gallery in 1969, to learn drama, screenplay, direction and stage decoration.
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Ravindra Randeniya got his first starring role in the student production Mudu Puththu directed by Gallapaththi at the age of 25.
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Ravindra Randeniya next appeared in Kalu Diya Dahara, considered "a watershed in the annals of Sinhala films", which dealt with a struggle between workers and administration in a tea plantation.
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Ravindra Randeniya later won the Sarasaviya Award for Best Actor for this role in 1990, naming him as the first unanimous decision of the jury without recommendation.
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Later Ravindra Randeniya was elected to Sri Lanka Parliament for United National Party.
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Ravindra Randeniya served as a member between 2000 - 2004.