Jayasekara Aponsu


Goniya Malimage Jayasekara Aponsu, popularly as Jayasekara Aponsu, is a Sri Lankan film actor, director, and script writer and a senior artist in Sri Lankan theatre. He works in Sri Lankan cinema, tele-dramas, and stage dramas both in comic and dramatic roles.

Personal life

Jayasekara Aponsu was born on 23 February 1951 in Nuwara Eliya. Aponsu is married to Jayanthi Aponsu and they have one son, Thamira Aponsu. Aponsu first met his wife during a drama school conducted by him at Mount Lavinia in 1970s. They married in 1978 after the love affair. Due to many circumstances and money problems, he abandoned and missed his wife and son for a 30 years of time, until they united in 2016 March. Though he abandoned them, his sisters and brothers came closer to his wife and son in that crucial thirty years. However, he married Sujatha Priyadarshani in 2018, who is 42 years younger than Aponsu.
His sister Avanthi Aponsu is also a popular actress.

Theatre work

He started stage drama career with a 12 award-winning drama Pathale Soladaduwo. Some of his most popular stage dramas are Thatu, 31, Eri,Guru, Kira, Maha Saha Shen,Sako, Samanallu, Hathare Wattuwa, Giju, Proda, Iri, Tharuwa Vikine, Horu, and Madame Shoba staged more than 100 times throughout the country. Aponsu established a drama theatre school Shilpa Kala Guru Sewana for teaching young artists as well.

Teledrama

His most popular teledrama acting came through comedy play Nonavaruni Mahathwaruni as Nihal Karapitiya. He got the character after tragic accident killed actor Granville Rodrigo, who initially played the character. His first direction in teledrama came through Sil, which was a drama, horror, fantasy telecasted on Swarnavahini in 2007.

Selected serials

Aponsu started his cinema career in 1973 with the film Suhada Pathuma. Since then, he acted more than 35 film across three decades. His first direction came through the film Ra Ru in 1999.

As director