Sumitra Peries, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Sumitra Peries

Sri Lankan film director and diplomat

Date of Birth: 24-Mar-1935

Place of Birth: Avissawella, Sri Lanka

Profession: diplomat, film director

Nationality: Sri Lanka

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Sumitra Peries (born 24 March 1934) is the first Sri Lankan female filmmaker and is known by all as the "Poetess of Sinhala Cinema".
She also held the post of Sri Lanka's ambassador to France, Spain and the United Nations in the late 1990s.
Of her films the more popular ones are Gehenu Lamai, Ganga Addara and Yahaluvo.
She is married to the most prolific Sri Lankan film director Dr.
Lester James Peries.