Jackson Anthony
Birthday: Born in 1958-07-08 in Ragama, Sri Lanka
Deathday: 2023-10-09
Conganige Joseph Malsi Jackson Anthony, commonly known as Jackson Anthony, is an actor in Sri Lankan cinema, theater, and television. One of the most popular artists in Sri Lanka, Anthony won the award for the Best Actor for record sixteen times.
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ගඟ දිගේ
Character: Narrator
A travel documentary along Mahweli river narrated by Jackson Anthony...
අකාලසන්ධ්යා
Character: Naaga Singha
In 1600 A. D., an ancient aversion rises from its slumber. Two clans who indoctrinate the Sinhalese martial art 'Angam Pora' clash. A warrior awakens an untapped potential of his own mind, the Kundalini yoga. He is unstoppable. A little girl is destined to take the revenge on behalf of her assassinated father. The warrior travels through time. He realizes that hatred is not appeased by hatred. The girl fulfills her task. But a bond is left behind....
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Weesi Dela
Character: Nimal
Nirmal lives in a small village with his father and a beautiful sister, Sirima. The family is shattered when Sirima is raped by one of their neighbours....
Ahelepola Kumarihami
Character: King Rajasinghe
The story of Madduma Bandara. The sensational prodigy, brave son of Ehalapola Kumarihami....
Little Miss Puppet
Character: Uncle Louis
A young girl distraught by her mother's sudden illness finds solace in a beachfront carnival's puppet show run by a mysterious ringmaster....
Loku Duwa
Character: Wickrama
"Loku Duwa" depicts an attractive and self-sacrificing daughter of the middle class in the city who is trapped in a family of traditional values....
No Address
Character: Nasiwatte Hitler
The lives of a hoodlum, businessman, a law student and a woman are deeply affected by the greed for power....
Sinhabahu
Character:
The movie is based on the legend of King Sinhabahu, the son of a lion and a royal princess Suppa Devi....
Aswasuma
Character: Guneris-Young
An elderly man who regrets certain events in his past life displays his struggle to relieve the bottled-up feelings which had disturbed him throughout his life. Opening with the funeral of the elderly Guneris' wife the film follows the revelation of his past which is filled with a number of tragic events including a triple murder he had committed 52 years ago....
Dharmayuddhaya
Character: Harischandra
Dharmayuddhaya is a 2017 Sri Lankan Sinhala Family drama film directed by Indian director Cheyyar Ravi and produced by MTV Channel for Sirasa Films of The Capital Maharaja Organization Limited and is distributed by M Entertainments.It is a Sinhala remake of the Indian Malayalam- language film Drishyam originally written by Jeethu Joseph. Dharmayuddhaya follows the story of Harishchandra; a self-made businessman, loved and respected by all in the area. His wife and two children are his most value...
Sooriya Arana
Character: Sediris
A secret friendship is developed between the two boys, a young disciple and a son of a hunter in a remote village....
Gharasarapa
Character: Gharsarapa AKA Kalukumara
Gharasarapa (The Lurking Serpent) (Sinhalese: ඝරසරප ) is a 2018 Sri Lankan Sinhala supernatural romantic horror film directed by Jayantha Chandrasiri and produced by Arjuna Kamalanath for Isuru Films. It stars Jackson Anthony, Kamal Addararachchi and Sangeetha Weeraratne in lead roles along with Sriyantha Mendis , Devnaka Porage and Kavindya Adikari. Music composed by Chintaka Jayakody. Kavindya Adikari, who is the daughter of popular singers Samitha Mudunkotuwa and Athula Adhikari make her debu...
Kusa Pabha
Character: King Kusa
The love story between beastly-looking prince Kusa and beautiful princess Paba....
The Other Half
Character: Hemachandra
Living with the pain of a poisoned environment and a society that doesn't understand the value of an individual....
Pravegaya
Character: Brando
A Young man fights for his lost bike with courage. Honest Gangster with his foolish brother who destroyed everything. This is a remake of Tamil movie Polladhavan aka.Ruthless Man (2007)...
Udumbara
Character: Ananda
The movie revolves around Anandha, a middle aged man, who tries to achieve his lifelong dream through a girl named Udumbara....
Maharaja Gemunu
Character: King Elara
Maharaja Gemunu is based on the odyssey of King Gemunu (ruler of Sri Lanka 161–137 BC) who is renowned for defeating and overthrowing King Elara, the usurping Tamil prince from the Chola Kingdom, who had invaded the Kingdom of Rajarata in 205 BC....
Bawa Duka - The Sorrow of Existence - Part I
Character: Peduru
Set during the British colonial reign in Sri Lanka (1905), this powerful drama follows Peduru who descends from a line of traditional drummers, crossing over to three generations. Peduru's struggle for survival in this harsh rural hamlet exposes the repressive Buddhist institutionalization of the locals, and the hierarchical structure backed by the British colonials....
Mille Soya
Character: Samson
Mille Soya, is a film depicting a dangerous and hazardous journey by a young Sri Lankan group to rich Europe. They are subject to deceptions by the intermediaries, betrayals by friends, arrests while crossing the borders and even death....
Firearms and Fireworks
Character: Padmasiri
Padme starts as an ordinary local with a volatile temper. While cleaning a shotgun with a village businessman, he expresses a sudden violent urge, leading him to murder the businessman and declare his intent to run the town's criminal underworld....
Guerilla Marketing
Character: Gregory Mahadikaram
Thisara, the owner of an advertising firm, gets a contract to make a propaganda campaign for the opposition leader Gregory Mahadikaram at the next presidential elections....
Attention
Character: blind ex-army man
Attention (සීරුවෙන්) is a Sri Lankan Sinhala thriller drama film directed by Sudesh Wasantha Pieris and produced by Nihal Wijesinghe for Nilkamal Films. It stars Jackson Anthony in the lead role along with Dasun Pathirana, Buddhika Jayaratne, Dishni Rajapakshe and Semini Iddamalgoda in supportive roles. The film marked the final cinema appearance of the dramatist Jackson Anthony before his death....
Bawa Karma - The Sorrow of Existence - Part II
Character: Peduru
A continuation of “Bawa Duka”; via Peduru’s family, the narrative exposes the social stasis/class discrimination encouraged by the local Sinhalese Buddhist clergy, while the arrival of the Christian missionaries signals a more progressive mindset, though at the cost of conversion to a monotheistic faith. Tyranny is not only practiced by the British colonials but equally facilitated by local traditional institutions--thus, the resultant suffering (Duka) of Peduru is a combination of the two....
Dheevari: Fisherman's Daughter
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When a young Sri Lankan woman returns home to her fishing village after growing up in an orphanage, she is appalled by its feudal prejudices and iniquities. She is determined to change things....
Randiya Dahara
Character: Lionel
Follows the story of a struggling young woman who pretends to be the wife of a missing soldier to claim compensation money for going abroad, only for the soldier to return alive....