Nationality Sri Lankan | Name Jayasekara Aponso | |
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Full Name Jayasekara Aponsu | ||
Goniya Malimage Jayasekara Aponsu, (born 23 February 1951) popularly as Jayasekara Aponsu (Sinhala:ජයසේකර අපෝන්සු), is a Sri Lankan film actor, director, and script writer and a senior artist in Sri Lankan theatre. He works in Sri Lankan cinema, tele-dramas, and stage dramas both in comic and dramatic roles.
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Personal life
Jayasekara Aponsu was born on 23 February 1951 in Nuwara Eliya. Aponsu is married to Jayanthi Aponsu and they have one son, Thamira Aponsu. Aponsu first met his wife during a drama school conducted by him at Mount Lavinia in 1970s. They married on 1978 after the love affair. Due to many circumstances and money problems, he abandoned and missed his wife and son for a 30 years of time, until they united in 2016 March. Though he abandoned them, his sisters and brothers came closer to his wife and son in that crucial thirty years.
His sister Avanthi Aponsu is also a popular actress.
Theatre work
Aponsu parallelly acted both in teledramas and stage drams from the beginning of his career.12 award-winning Drama "Underworld Soldiers" Pathale Soldaduwo & His most popular stage dramas are Thatu, 31, Eri" ,"Guru", "Kira", "Maha sha shen" ,Sako, Samanallu, Hathare Wattuwa, Giju, Proda, Iri, Tharuwa Vikine, Horu, and Madame Shoba staged more than 100 times throughout the country. Aponsu established a drama theatre school Shilpa Kala Guru Sewana for teaching young artists as well.
Teledrama
His most popular teledrama acting came through comedy play Nonavaruni Mahathwaruni as Nihal Karapitiya. He got the character after tragic accident killed actor Granvil Rodrigo, who initially played the character. His first direction in teledrama came through Sil, which was a drama, horror, fantasy telecasted on Swarnavahini in 2007. Some of his popular dramas are Night Learners, Class Sinhala Class and Suraduthiyo.
Filmography
Aponsu started his cinema career in 1973 with the film Suhada Pathum. Since then, he acted more than 35 film across three decades. His first direction came through the film Ra Ru in 1999.