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Year: 1985
Title: ATTA BINDEI (Broken
branch)
Medium: 12-episode teledrama
Character: Priyanka, a
school girl who is separated from her best friend as a result
of ethnic conflict.
Notes: Atta Bindei was the
first indoor studio television production done in Sri Lanka
and Yashoís first small screen performance
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Year: 1987
Title: ASALVASIYO (Neighbours)
Medium: Television series
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Year: 1990
Title: GIRAYA
(Sinhala translation of Punyakanthi Wijeyanayake's novel)
Medium: Television series
Director: Sir Lester James
Peiris
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Year: 1990-1993
Title: HIRU DAHASA (Sinhala
translation of the American play, ëOur Towní)
Medium: Theatre
Character: Emily Webb
Awards: Best Actress Award
in the 1990 State Drama Awards Festival
Notes: Yashoís first
theatrical performance.
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Year: 1990-1993
Title: KADULLA
(Leaping hurdles)
Medium: Television series
Character: Manel
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Year: 1990
Title: GURUGEDARA
(Teacher's home)
Medium: Film
Director: late Wijaya
Dharmasiri
Character: Neela, a theatre
actress
Awards: Sarasaviya Merit
Award at 1993 Sarasaviya Film Festival
Notes: Yashoís first film.
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Year: 1990-1995
Title: DOO DARUWO (Children)
Medium: Television series
Character: Priyanvada
Notes: An immensely popular
series with almost 8 million viewers each week.
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Year: 1991
Title: HUMALAYA (Steam)
Medium: Television series
Character: Chutti, a dumb
girl
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Year: 1991
Title: MARUTHAYA (Storm)
Medium: Film
Character: Renuka, a story
of how politics destroys an innocent girlís life.
Film Festivals: Fribourgh,
Switzerland
Notes: Yashoís first lead
role in a film. She was recognized as a film artiste as a
result of this performance.
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Year: 1992
Title: SIHINA DESHAYEN
(Dreamland)
Medium: Film
Role: Theatre actress
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Year: 1992
Title: ACHARYAN (Guru)
Medium: Malayalam film in
Kerala
Director: Ashokan
Character: Rekha, the lead
female role
Actors: Thilakan, Vineeth,
Suresh Gopi
Notes: Yashoís first foreign
film.
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Year: 1992
Title: KSHEMA BHOOMIYA
(Oasis)
Medium: Film
Character: Damayanthi
Awards: 1994 Critics Award
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Year: 1992
Title: MAMAGE DUVA (Uncleís
daughter)
Medium: Television film,
based on the short story by famous novelist Martin
Wickramasinghe.
Character: Kusum
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Year: 1993
Title: PUNCHI KUMARIHAMI
(Little princess)
Medium: Television film
Character: Punchi Kumarihami,
a disabled girl
Awards: Gold Award (Best
Actress) at 1994 UNDA Television Awards, Merit Award at 1995
Sumathi Tele Awards.
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Year: 1993
Title: GIGIRI WALALU
(Anklets)
Medium: Television series
Character: Malani, a young
mother who loses her child
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Year: 1993
Title: SUNDAGIRI PAVVA (Moon
mountain)
Medium: Television series
Characters: Arundathi, a
happy-go-lucky girl and Seetha, a tormented, rural girl.
Notes: Yashoís first double
acting performance
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Year: 1993
Title: INDURU DORA (Magical
Path)
Medium: Television series
Character: Chithra, a woman
dealing with life with her fiancÈ who has AIDS
Notes: The first drama based
on AIDS in Sri Lanka
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Year: 1993
Title:
LE PRIX DíUNE FEMME
(The price of a woman)
Medium: French film
Director : Gerard Krawazyk
Character: Kusum, a story
about the dowry system in India
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Year: 1993
Title: AKKA (Older sister)
Medium: Television film
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Year: 1993
Title: ROGIYA (Patient)
Medium: Television film
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Year: 1993
Title:
ANANTHA RATHRIYA (Dark
Night of the Soul)
Medium: Film
Director: Prassana Vithanage
Character: Narmada
International Film festivals:
Melbourne,
Fukuoka, Pusan, Canberra, Nantes Hawaii, India (IFFI) Fribourg,
Singapore, Penang, Manila, Shanghai, Trivandrum, Delhi (Cinemaya),
Calcutta.
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Year: 1994
Title:
MAW SANDA BISAU
(Mother)
Medium: Television film
Character: Nirmala
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Year: 1994
Title: PUTHU SENEHASA (Love
of a son)
Medium: Television film
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Year: 1994
Title:
APE ATHTHO (Our
people)
Medium: Television series
Character: Udara
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Year: 1995
Title: SITUVARAYO
(Count)
Medium: Television series
Character: Sakunthala
Awards: Nominated for Best
Actress Award at 1996 Sumathi Tele Awards
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Year: 1995
Title: DURGANTHAYA (Based on
Emily BrontÈís novel, ëWuthering Heightsí)
Medium: Television series
Character: Isabella
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Year: 1995
Title: GIRIKULA ANDARAYA
(Mountain top story)
Medium: Television series
Character: Santhalatha, a
woman discovering her roots
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Year: 1995
Title: DUVATA MAWAKA MISA
(Mother is everything)
Medium: Film
Director: Mrs Sumithra
Peiris
Character: Kusum
Awards: Best Supporting
Actress at 1996 Presidential Film Awards, Merit Award
at 1996 OCIC Film Awards
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Year: 1995
Title: PITAGAMKARAYO
(Outsiders)
Medium: Television series
Character: Kusuma
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Year: 1996
Title: SAMUDRA CHAYA (Ocean
shadows)
Medium: Television series
Character: Samudra
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Year: 1996
Title:
IN THE NAME OF GOD ñ The Story of Mother Teresa
Medium: Film by Hallmark
Production
Director: Kevin Connor
Producer: Peter Shepherd
Character: Sister Maria
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Year: 1996
Titles:
TEA GARDEN, MUSIC GARDEN, FLOWER GARDEN
Medium: French film trilogy
Director: Samy Pavel
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Year: 1996-1997
Title:
NADEYO (Relatives)
Medium: Television series
Character: Suba
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Year: 1997
Title: THEERTHA YATHRA
(Pilgrimage)
Medium: Film
Character: Menaka
Film festivals: New Delhi 1998
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Year: 1997
Title:
SATHMAHALA (Seven
stories)
Medium: Television series
Character: Sumedha
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Year: 1997
Title: IQBAL (Carpet weaver)
Medium: Italian film
Director: Cynthia TH Torrini
Producer: Mario Rossini
Character:
Fathima, an Indian woman who fights for her childrenís rights
Actors: Roshan Seth
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Year: 1997-1998
Title: SENEHOVANTHAYO
Medium: Television series
Character: Nirmala
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Year: 1998
In Tokyo on
the set of "Serendib" Japan |
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Year: 1998
Title: MERCHANT OF VENICE
(Sinhala
translation of Shakespeareís famous play)
Medium: Theatre
Character: Portia
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Year: 1998
Title: KALU SUDU MAL (Black
and white flowers)
Medium: Film
Character: A woman who tries
to lead a normal life after fleeing from a fundamentalist
group
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Year: 1998-2001
Title: DAMINI
Medium: 500-episode
teledrama
Director: Indian Rajesh
Lodhia
Character: Damini, a
journalist
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Year: 1999
Title: RAJANA (Queen)
Medium: Television series
Character: Sujatha, a girl
who marries an alien
Awards: Nominated for Best
Actress at Sumathi Tele Awards
Notes: First sci-fi
out-of-space story done in Sri Lanka
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Year: 1999
Lux Shoot in Thailand: She
represents
Lux Almond White Soap |
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995 |
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Year: 1999-2001
Title: SATHPURAVESIYO (Good
citizens)
Medium: Television series
Character: Ahinsa, an orphan
who makes her way to the top
Notes: Ahinsa was a very
popular character who created trends in Sri Lanka. Many young
girls dressed and wanted to be like her.
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Year: 2000
Title: BONIKKO (Dolls)
Medium: Television series
Character: Sujatha
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Year: 2000
Title:
TROJAN WOMEN (Sinhala
translation of Greek dramatist Euripidesí timeless play
ëTrojan Womení)
Medium: Theatre
Character: Andromachi
Awards: Best Supporting
Actress at 2000 State Drama Awards
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Year 2000
Title: Return to Bangalore
Director: Maurizio Zaccaro
Character: Radha |
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Year: 2001
Title: HIRU KUMARI (Sun
Princess)
Medium: Television series
Characters: Hiruni and Aruni,
a double acting role where Yasho plays two half sisters with
one suffering from cancer.
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Year: 2002-2003
Title: SURIYA DARUWO
(Children of the sun)
Medium: Television series
Character: Amanda
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Year: 2002
Title: AGNIDAHAYA (Fire & Water)
Medium: Film
Director: Jayantha
Chandrasiri
Character: Kirimanike, a beautiful woman
who turns a
17th-century village leader's world upside down.
International Film festivals:
33rd New Delhi 2002, Fribourgh in Switzerland 2002, Malaysia 2002,
Kuala Lumpur
2002, Jakartha 2002, Isburge Austria 2003
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Year: 2003
Title: SUVANDA PADMA
(Fragrant Flowers)
Medium: Television series
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Year: 1990
Best actress at State Drama
Festival for Hiru Dahasa
This was the 1st Award in her career.
Yasho was
not in the country to accept it so her father accepted it for
her. The picture was taken as soon as she returned.
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Year: 1998
TOYP Award for Cultural
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Year: 1998-2002
Yasho is the only actress to have won the Most Popular Actress Award at
the Sumathi Tele Awards for five consecutive years
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