Iranganie Serasinghe

 Iranganie Roxanna Serasinghe is a Sri Lankan actor. She was born on 21st June in the year 1927. Her birthplace was Mudungomuwa, Ruwanwella in Sri Lanka.  She grew up there in a small village. She loved to study on nature since her childhood. It made her an environmental activist in future. She studied at Bishop College. Later, she attended Girls High School in Kandy. She acted in many plays. She played the lead role in the show Pygmalion. Her father was against her studies, but she attended the University of Ceylon with the help of her cousins in 1947. Her father passed away when she was in her first year. 
 

Iranganie started doing acts in the theater of Ceylon and became a dancer under the guardianship of E.F.C. Ludowyk, a Professor. She used to follow Chitrasena. Later, after completing her graduation in Arts, her guardian recommended her to move to London. She got married to Dissanayake. He was a Professor. Soon, they divorced. Later, she went to Bristol Old Theater School and School of Speech and Dramatic Arts in London under the companionship of Sybil Thorndyke and Flora Robson. 
 

After her one and two-year courses in London, she came back to Sri Lanka. Iranganie met Neumann Jubal and Ludowyk and returned to the theater and stage performances. Neumann was a Jew director. In 1953, Iranganie starred in The Lower Depths in the a newly opened theater named as The Lionel Wendt Art Center. Neumann Jubal produced it. She did many English works too. Later, she started working in the Sinhala Theater in Apata Puthe Magik Nether. It was a Henry Jayasena Bio coming soon... >> Read More... production. She appeared in A Streetcar Named Desire, Porisadaya, and New Muhunu. It was all under Damma Jagoda production. In the next years, she started teaching at Musaeus College, worked for The Times of Ceylon. She used to work at the SLBC with the designation of a junior executive and also as an instructor of Walkers Tours and Travels Private. Ltd.

She started her cinema career with Be Sorry or Be Safe.  Lester James Peris produced it. The public applauded her work. In 1960, she got married to Winston Serasinghe.  Her other films  were Nisala Gira, Heart FM, Kinihiriya Mal, Water, Bollywood, and Iqbal. Some of her TV shows were Muthu Kirill, Amanda, and Nadal.
 

She had two children named Ravi Serasinghe and Ranjit Serasinghe. She is the aunt of Ranil Wickramasinghe, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.