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Filmmaker · Sri Lanka

Gamini Fonseka

Died in 2004

Gamini Fonseka was born on 21 March 1936 in Dehiwala and studied at S. Thomas' College in Mount Lavinia. He entered cinema through the film sets: an extra in Rekava, he then worked as an assistant on the shoot of The Bridge on the River Kwai, before becoming an actor, then the director of several films. Elected member of parliament for Matara in 1989 under the banner of the United National Party, he was deputy speaker of Parliament from 1989 to 1994, then governor of the North-Eastern Province from 1995 to 1998. He died on 30 September 2004 in Ja-Ela.

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