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Actress Miyuri Samarasinghe passed away
Veteran teledrama actress Miyuri Samarasinghe passed away today (06). Born in Moratuwa on March 15, 1939, she was 81 years old at her death. She had cancer lately. Educated at St. Rosary's Catholic School, Moratuwa and Museus College, Colombo, she studied dancing at the age of 14 under Jayantha Algama. Later she worked as a dance teacher at Sudarshi Institute. She married at the age of 17 and, at the age of 24 were four children. She met her husband, Piyal Samarasinghe, while still in school. The couple has three daughters - Sujeewa, Deepthi, Avanthi - and one son, Ruwan. Deepthi and Avanthi are twins.
She was 39 years old when her husband, Piyal, died in 1979. She started her acting career with the stage play New Day. Later she had the opportunity to act in stage plays such as Ran Kanda, Umathusan Warusawa, Othello, Sivamma Dhanapala, Laura and Ninety Ninety Nine. She has acted in over 300 stage plays and has produced and directed ten plays. In 1981, she won the Best Actress award at the Presidential Awards for the play Ninety-Nine. That same year, her production Snow Birds won four awards at the Golden Design Awards for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay and Best Production.
Her debut film experience came in 1973 with the film Miriguwa directed by Amarasena Kumarasinghe. Since then, she has contributed to several popular films, including Podi Wije, Adishtanaya, Madol Dhuwa, Viragaya, Yahalu Yeheli and Adara Hasuna. She has starred in over 500 TV dramas. Among them are the sun's weeping flowers, the rising of the sun, the sun, the relatives, the valley of dreams, the asura, the damini. She also won an award for Best Actress in a Teledrama. The Muri Samarasinghe Rangabhinandana Concert, organized by the Department of Culture and the Tower Hall Theater Foundation in her honour, was held on October 4, 2015, at the Tower Hall Theater, Maradana. As the 50th anniversary of her theatrical career passed, she wrote her autobiography and published it as a book.