BornAnarkalli Janina Jayatilaka Aakarssha
12 July 1987 (age 30)
ColomboSri Lanka
OccupationActressmodelpolitician
Years active1995–present
Spouse(s)Dishan Jayasinha
AwardsSarasaviya Most Popular Actress Award (2004), Presidential Award for performance in Anjalika (2005) Derena LUX Film award most popular actress (2012) & Miss Sri Lanka (2004)
Websitewww.anarkalli.com

Her first public opportunity to act came when Somaratne Dissanayake and Renuka Balasuriya, who directed and produced the teledrama Iti Pahan in 1995, were in search of a little girl who was fluent in English. In the drama, she performed the role of "Daisy Susan" beside renowned actress Vasanthi Chathurani.[3]
After a nearly seven-year hiatus, she returned to acting in 2003 when, at 15, she was cast in a lead role in Pissu Trible.  Subsequently, she performed in several successful movies, and received acclaim in teledrama performances with her roles as "Inoka" in Sihinayak Paata Paatin and 'Tanya' in Santhuwaranaya.
She is the youngest actress to date in the history of Sri Lankan Cinema to win the most popular actress award.[6] She has acted as the leading lady in more than 22 movies and 10 teledramas. She also works as a model, brand ambassador and a presenter.[7]
She has appeared in many music videos. Some of her famous music videos are "Meedum selen" by Bathiya and Santhush, "Jeththu none" by Dushanth Weeraman and "Siththamak wage" by Yashan.
Anarkalli also won the glamorous Lux Derana Film Most Popular Actress Award for 2012




Australia hostel stabbings: Accused will not stand trial for murder


A man accused of stabbing two British backpackers to death will not stand trial for murder after he was ruled as being of "unsound mind".
Psychiatrists told a court in Australia that Smail Ayad was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.
Mr Ayad, a French national, was charged with 16 offences, including the murder of Mia Ayliffe-Chung and Tom Jackson.
The 30-year-old was remanded to a mental health facility after appearing at the Mental Health Court in Brisbane.
Ms Ayliffe-Chung, who was 20 and from Wirksworth in Derbyshire, was stabbed to death in the bathroom of Shelley's Hostel in Home Hill, Queensland, on 23 August 2016.
Mr Jackson, 30, from Congleton in Cheshire, died in hospital several days later from injuries he received while trying to save her.
Josh Bavas, a reporter with ABC News, was in court for the hearing.
"In her summary, Justice Jean Dalton said the incident began with Ayad stabbing Mia Ayliffe-Chung in her room and the hostel manager when he came to help," Mr Bavas said.
"He then jumped out a window, fractured his back and neck, and went on to stab a nearby dog before returning to his first victim's room.
"That's where he then attacked Thomas Jackson who was trying to help his fellow backpacker Mia Ayliffe-Chung."
Shortly before Mr Jackson died his family said they were "immensely proud" of him.

Ms Ayliffe-Chung's mother, Rosie Ayliffe, travelled to Australia for the court hearing.
"He was described to me by the prosecuting attorney as a broken man, so my feelings towards him are ambivalent," she said.
"He has caused untold pain to me but at the same time I think he is paying a price for that."
Ms Ayliffe was satisfied even before the hearing that Mr Ayad had schizophrenia and other mental health problems.
"I've had to think hard about whether to go because I don't feel the need to see somebody punished for the crime that he committed," she said.
"For me, if he is mentally ill and he needs treatment there is no point fighting that judgment."
Psychiatrists told the court that Mr Ayad, 30, had been using cannabis almost every day since he was 12.
They said he was suffering psychosis over a number of days prior to the attack, and believed farmers were plotting to kill him.
Ms Ayliffe wrote to Mr Ayad's mother through her support worker.
"As a mother to a mother [I wrote] I want to speak to her and tell her there's no animosity from me to her and that I understand that as a mother she will be suffering," said Ms Ayliffe.
"I went into court this morning and she had replied to me and wrote the most beautiful email to me.
"There are no winners. We are all losers. We've all lost what we most cared


Bollywood star Salman Khan gets five years in jail for poaching

An Indian court has sentenced Bollywood superstar Salman Khan to five years in jail for poaching rare antelope back in 1998.
The court in Jodhpur also fined him 10,000 rupees ($154; £109) for the crime. He has since been taken to jail.
Khan killed the two blackbucks, a protected species, in the western state of Rajasthan while shooting a film.
Four other actors who starred with him in the movie and were also charged with the offence have been acquitted.
Khan, 52, can appeal against the verdict in a higher court.
Correspondents say he will have to spend at least a few days in prison.

What is behind the Salman Khan case?

This is the fourth case filed against the actor in connection with poaching animals during the filming of the 1998 movie Hum Saath Saath Hain.
He has been acquitted in three of them.
In 2006, a trial court convicted the actor in two cases of poaching and sentenced him to five years in prison. The Rajasthan high court suspended the sentence the following year, and eventually acquitted him in 2016.
The state government has appealed against that order in the Supreme Court.
The original poaching case against him was filed by the local Bishnoi community, who revere and worship the blackbuck.

Has he been accused of anything else?

In December 2015, Khan was cleared in a 2002 hit-and-run case in which a homeless man died and four others were in injured. His car allegedly ran over them while they were sleeping on a street in the western city of Mumbai.
A lower court had convicted him in May 2015. During his trial, Khan had argued that his driver had been behind the wheel, but the judge said it was the actor who had been driving under the influence of alcohol.
Seven months later, the high court acquitted him. It said that key evidence - including testimony from a policeman who had since died - was not reliable.
In January 2017, Khan was also acquitted in another case that charged him with using illegal firearms to kill the blackbucks.

How big is Salman Khan?

One of Bollywood's biggest stars, the actor has appeared in more than 100 films and has a huge fan following across the vast spectrum of Indian society.
His fans include the middle-class English-speaking audiences as well as poor slum dwellers for whom the 350-rupee ($5.20; £3.40) tickets do not come cheap.
Known for his romantic roles as well as action films, Khan has won several prestigious Indian cinema awards.
The eldest of the three sons of well-known screenplay writer Salim Khan, he is a hit on social media too - his Facebook page is liked by more than 36 million fans, while on Twitter he has 32.5 million followers.

Will it dent his popularity?

Rajini Vaidyanathan, BBC News, Delhi
Every day in the Mumbai suburb of Bandra, fans flock to Salman Khan's apartment building to catch a glimpse of the Bollywood actor.
I once met a group of fans who had travelled more than five hours by bus, to wait in the searing heat in the hope he would wave at them from his balcony.
His films continue to draw mass audiences, across urban and rural India. In a country where Bollywood is revered, Khan is one of the most worshipped.
While his time in the spotlight has attracted praise and controversy in equal measure, this latest conviction is unlikely to dent his popularity or damage his career due to the cult-like status he enjoys.

What has the reaction been?

Khan's conviction is making waves on both mainstream and social media.
The hashtag #BlackBuckPoachingCase is the top trend on Twitter India while #Salman Khan is also trending.
Many of the tweets addressed the fact that the case has gone on for years.
Others welcomed the verdict.
Some celebrities, including friends of the actor, took Khan's side.
However, most Bollywood actors have refrained from commenting.

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