Trelicia Gunawardena

Acting

Trelicia Gunawardena

Born — Died

1934-10-14 — 1999-04-26

Known for

Acting

Credits

9 titles

Trelicia Gunawardena (born Trilicia Abeykoon; 14 October 1934 – 26 April 1999) was an acclaimed and versatile Sri Lankan actress and singer who left a lasting footprint on Sinhala cinema, theater, and television. She is widely celebrated for her deep, dramatic performances, particularly in the cinematic masterpieces of pioneering director Lester James Peries.

Known for

Dheevari: Fisherman's Daughter poster
NR

When a young Sri Lankan woman returns home to her fishing village after growing up in an orphanage, she is appalled by its feudal prejudices and iniquities. She is determined to change things.

Dheevari: Fisherman's Daughter

2006

Baddegama poster
6.6

Baddegama or, more correctly, Beddegama is a 1980 award winning Sinhalese language film directed by Lester James Peries that follows the lives of village people in British Colonial Sri Lanka. The film is based on the 1913 book titled as "The Village in the Jungle" by Leonard Woolf. Silindu is a hunter in a small village where he and his family endure a life of hardships. After facing disease and poverty under colonial rule, the final blow comes when Silindu is tried for murder.

Baddegama

1980

The Girls poster
7.4

In rural Sri Lanka, two sisters pursue love and personal ambitions despite their family's strict social expectations. As class barriers and financial struggles intensify, both women are forced to abandon their dreams for family duty.

The Girls

1978

Kaliyugaya poster
8.5

Piyal and Nanda have now aged, and their children have left them. Priya reminisces on her life after her son sends her a letter from London accusing her and her husband of various faults.

Kaliyugaya

1982

Mangrove Island poster
9.0

Madol Duwa (Mangrove Island) is a 1976 Sri Lankan drama film directed by Lester James Peries and produced by Upasena Marasinghe. The film stars Ajith Jinadasa as Upali, a young rebellious youth who travels to a small island to get away from the restrictive society around him. The film is based on Martin Wickremasinghe's 1947 novel Madol Doova. It was a commercial success

Mangrove Island

1976

Changes in the Village poster
5.8

Piyal is a handsome young teacher who is hired to teach English to Nanda, a member of a high class family. They fall in love, but can't elope because Piyal is of a lower class. Nanda's parents instead push her into a marriage with Jinadasa, who is of the same class as them. With economic downturn in Sri Lanka, both families lose their status and Jinadasa leaves to try to make a better life for himself; he never achieves his goal and dies penniless. Piyal and Nanda can now finally come together. They have changed however, and the earlier idylic nature of their relationship is not recaptured.

Changes in the Village

1963

Film credits

1970s · 3 titles