Samanalee Fonseka
Acting
Biography
Wanniarachchige Samanalee Fonseka, is an actress in Sri Lankan cinema and television. Apart from acting, she is also a social activist who stands against racism, gender inequality and more social issues in Sri Lanka.
Born: November 23, 1981
Place of Birth: Colombo, Sri Lanka
Known For
The Strange Familiar
Dinithi tries very hard to communicate with her husband, but he ignores her presence relentlessly. The harder she tries to reach him, the deeper his silence becomes. Their 8 year old daughter watches them. Her parents try to get involved but receive the same silent treatment from him.
Flowers of the Sky
A Silver screen idol of yesteryear a faded star today. In the web of a scandal the limelight is all her again. A long forgotten secret resurfaces making her undertake the most painful journey ever.
Dirty, Yellow, Darkness
After his wife leaves him, a man with a severe case of OCD who fears that his own urine is contaminating everything around him, admits himself to a mental hospital for treatment to overcome his fear and win his wife back.
Burning Birds
Since her fish salesman husband was killed by militant thugs for his political affiliations, Kusum has been left alone to support her eight children and her mother-in-law. She does this by breaking rocks in a nearby quarry. But of course, things can get worse and they do in this heartfelt but gruelling litany of suffering.
Pillow Talk
A devoted fan, head over heels in love with the locally famous actress Samanalee Fonseka, asks a friend's help to make a video to convey his love and ask for her hand in marriage. After changing his day to day life drastically, the fan starts to behave somewhat odd.
Alone in a Valley
A creative director of an Advertising Agency, going through an experience that he has never encountered before, where time has stopped.
Inflammable
Kamal murders his wife and, in an agitated and confused state, he sets on a journey to dispose of the body.
Bahuchithawadiya
Sasitha works as the underpaid delivery man for Giftnet, an Internet based business which accepts gift orders from outside Sri Lanka. Suffocated by economic pressures and sexual frustrations, like most of his peers he sees going abroad as the only way out of his wretched existence. Fascinated with the idea of “abroad” he forms relationships with the recipients of these gifts, most of whom are rich, lonely women. When the real world starts to look too bleak, Sasitha seeks greener pastures through virtual relationships he builds on Facebook and Skype with Sri Lankan women of his own class, working abroad. But when nothing seems to go right, he grows desperate.
Motor Bicycle
Rangana is a young musician from the working classes who dreams big. His aim is to rise above his station, even as he toils the low-rent barroom circuit with his band, playing night after night to under-appreciative crowds to make a frugal living. Tanya is the love of his life, the woman whom all this will be worth achieving. She is just finishing school. As he toils through the nights, his need of a mode of transport - a motor bicycle - becomes more and more apparent. He dreams of one day collecting enough money to buy one, finally buying a second hand motorbike despite his mother's great protest. He now wants to taste his new found freedom with his beloved Tanya, along the city streets of Colombo. As Rangana and Tanya embark on this motorbike journey across the city, questions about their present, challenges to their future and the very essence of their lives is brought to the fore, in "Motor Bicycle."
Soosthi
A young woman on the edge of a half constructed building top trying to jump off. But a voice talks to her. It's a man. He tells her it's a matter of the last second thought which step her away from jumping. They start taking and decide to run away. So their story unveils while they travel around and across the country.
Filmography
as Mother
as Wasana
as Samanalee Fonseka
as Soosa
as Sarini
as Maya
as Samadi
as Wasana
as Taniya
as Bunty