# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sumitra-peries
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:33:13.483Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sumitra-peries"
name: "Sumitra Peries"
slug: "sumitra-peries"
description: "Sumitra Peries was a Sri Lankan filmmaker. She was the first female film director from Sri Lanka. and was known 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 was married to the most prolific Sri Lankan film director Dr. Lester James Peries."
tagline: "Sri Lankan film director and diplomat"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/8oORyFY46sFT1j3FeqBfyveLCUe.jpg"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1935-03-24"
deathDate: "2023-01-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.608532
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0673755/"
    handle:    "nm0673755"
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumitra_Peries"
    title: "Sumitra Peries"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "سوميترا پيريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumitra_Peries"
    title: "Sumitra Peries"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumitra_Peries"
    title: "Sumitra Peries"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumitra_Peries"
    title: "Sumitra Peries"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumitra_Peries"
    title: "Sumitra Peries"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B7%83%E0%B7%94%E0%B6%B8%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%AD%E0%B7%8A%E2%80%8D%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%8F_%E0%B6%B4%E0%B7%93%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%92%E0%B7%83%E0%B7%8A"
    title: "සුමිත්‍රා පීරිස්"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q286849"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1295434"
    title: "Sumitra Peries"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump