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This actress and producer was introduced to the cinema by Anthony C. Perera, Sonia Dissa nee Mary Felicia Perera, first acted in “Chandiya” in 1965. Titus Totawatte was its director. It was Tissa Abeysekara who first called her Sonia Disa, which name had clung on to her this far. “I had never been to a film when I first acted” Sonia the eldest in a family of four siblings said recalling her past. “It was my friends who persuaded me to become an actress,” said Sonia though her mother opposed the idea. One day Sonia along with a friend went to the location of Chandiya and made her first appearance before a camera. Since then she had acted in nearly hundred films including some very popular films, “Soorayangeth Sooraya”, “Thusara”, “Sadahatama Oba Magai” and “Janaka Saha Manju”. Sonia won the Sarasavi Film Festival Best Supporting Actress award for her role in “Obata Divura Kiyannam” and for her role in “Devduwa” won the Presidential award for the Best Supporting actress. Sonia having acted in most of K. A. W. Perera’s films said, “Many a time I have acted vamp roles and for some reason or other majority of my fans have been boys”. Pursuing film production with “Jaya Apatai” a box office hit she went onto make more than ten films. Having being involved in doing commercial films all her life Sonia now wants to produce a good artistic film. “Unlike during our time present day actors and actresses are quite talented and they also have got better prospects”, Sonia said. Commenting on audience response Sonia said viewers were quite intelligent today unlike then. Sonia today acts grandmother roles being occupied with her grandchildren at her residence in Dehiwela. Speaking about the felicitation she said; I was quite surprised the way my colleagues have come together for this occasion voluntarily and I am grateful to all of them”. |
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Sonia
Dissa’s colleagues fete her 