{"id":109533,"date":"2020-12-09T17:17:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T00:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=109533"},"modified":"2020-12-09T17:18:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T00:18:07","slug":"sri-lankan-born-actress-to-star-in-lord-of-the-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/12\/09\/sri-lankan-born-actress-to-star-in-lord-of-the-rings\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan born actress to star in &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> A Sri Lankan-born actress&nbsp;Thusitha Jayasundara has been included to the cast of the Amazon Original series based on the iconic The Lord of the Rings novels by J.R.R. Tolkien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thusitha Jayasundera is a Sri Lankan actress based in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.hirunews.lk\/Data\/News_Images\/202012\/1607521540_4295667_hirunews.jpg\" alt=\"Sri+Lankan+born+actress+to+star+in+%22Lord+of+the+Rings%22\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She currently plays Ros Mahendra in the BBC drama Doctor Foster. On 17 March 2019 Jayasundera appeared in Midsomer Murders in the episode &#8220;Death of the small coppers&#8221; she played the role of Anika Sidana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jayasundera is part of the twenty additional cast members who will be joining the ensemble cast as announced by Amazon Studios recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is reported that she and the newly selected cast for the series will be joining the filming which is currently underway in New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in 1971, Thusitha graduated from the Academy of Drama in 1993 and has starred in several films, including &#8216;The Foreigner&#8217;, which premiered in 2017. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News A Sri Lankan-born actress&nbsp;Thusitha Jayasundara has been included to the cast of the Amazon Original series based on the iconic The Lord of the Rings novels by J.R.R. Tolkien. Thusitha Jayasundera is a Sri Lankan actress based in the United Kingdom. She currently plays Ros Mahendra in the BBC drama Doctor Foster. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}