Gammada Liyanage Cletus Paulinus Mendis, popularly as Cletus Mendis (born as
ක්ලීටස් මෙන්ඩිස් Sinhala) is a
Sri Lanka
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n actor, mainly works in cinema and television. He has received a number of awards for portraying villains at the Sarasaviya, OCIC, Raigam, and Presidential film festivals.
Acting career
In 1971, before moving to silver screen, Mendis did dramas at church feasts and taught gymnastics and martial arts to the youth at Katupotha. Then 1973, he went to Colombo to face an interview with Henry Chandrawansa and then met Sugath Samarakoone at that interview. In 1977, he worked as the stunt director of the film ''Wanagatha Kella''.
His first cinema acting came in the 1978 epic history film ''Veera Puran Appu'' as a supporting actor. Then he acted in ''Yali Pipunu Malak'' in 1983. His first villain character came through the 1982 film ''Paramitha'', which turned his filming career towards villain roles throughout the rest of the decades.
In 2004, Mendis joined Vishva Kala Sarasaviya at
Mount Lavinia
Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia (; ), population 245,974 (2012), is a large municipality in Sri Lanka, covering . It lies south of the Colombo Municipal Council area and is separated from it by the Dehiwala canal which forms the northern boundary of DMMC ...
and met
Udayakantha Warnasuriya.
In 2021, he was honored with the 'Deshabhimani Keerthi Kalabushana' award.
Selected Television Serials
* ''Ammawarune''
* ''Ithin Eta Passe''
* ''Kapa Nasna Samaya''
* ''Nil Diya Rala''
* ''Pinsara Dosthara''
* ''Sabada Eliyas''
* ''Sanda Nodutu Sanda''
* ''Sanda Gomman Re''
* ''Sihinayaki Jeewithe''
* ''Sudui Usai''
Filmography
References
External links
ජාතික රූපවාහිනියට කළු සෙවනැල්ලක්ජනක චමින්දගේ ‘අකඩවාරිය’ මේ දිනවල රූ ගැන්වේක්ලීටස් වේදිකා රංගනයක හතයි හතයි හතේ හතයි ඇරඹේචම්පා ශ්රියාණි නැවතත් මිල්ලෑව වලව්ව ගෙදරට* [http://www.sarasaviya.lk/interviews/2019/05/02/4949/කවුද-හිතුවේ-දෙයියනේ-මෙහෙම-දෙයක්-වේවි-කියලා කවුද හිතුවේ දෙයියනේ මෙහෙම දෙයක් වේවි කියලා]
'Kadulu Thahanchiya': tussle over the lead roleගිය පාස්කුවත් දුකින් මේ පාස්කුවෙත් දුකින්
Sri Lankan male film actors
Living people
1948 births
Long stubs with short prose
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