Sumithra pieris biography of albert

Sumithra Gunawardena known today as Sumithra Peiris was born on March 24, 1935 to a well known family – the Boralugoda Gunewardenas in Avissawella.

Her father, Henry (better known as Harry) Gunawardena was a proctor in Avissawella and mother, Harriette Wickramasinghe, who died when Sumitra was 14, was from a middle-class family.�Sumithra began her education in Avissawella, then later enrolled at�Visaka Vidyalaya�in Colombo and finally joined Aquinas College Colombo to do the London A’ Level.

At 20, Sumithra travelled to Europe by ship to meet her elder brother Gamini. In France she met Dr. Lester James Peiris who advised her�to study movie making in London rather than in France.�Not only through her subsequent marriage to Lester but in her own right, a celebrated film director, Sumithra h