Devnaka Porage

Devnaka Namindu Porage (born 17 December 1997 as ), popularly known as Devnaka Porage, is an actor in Sri Lankan cinema and television. Started as a child artist through several commercial advertisements. Devnaka became a popular actor particularly with the blockbuster film Gharasarapa and television serials Ganga Addara and Sihina Wasanthayak.

Personal life He was born on 17 December 1997 in Colombo, Sri Lanka as the only child of the family. His father Damenda Porage and mother Shermila Milroy are both educationists by profession. He started primary education from Yoshida International School, Elic International School and then attended Lyceum International School for secondary education. While at Lyceum, he won the school colors in 2014 for his performance in cultural dancing, drama and sports karate. He studied in the Advanced Level Science stream even though he turned to law. Currently, he is following his LLB degree at Buckinghamshire New University.

While he was a student at Elic International School in Mabima, he won the gold medal in the Yellow Belt Kata event at the Colombo Shotokan Karate Tournament 2009. During his secondary school period, he excelled in Itosukai Sports Karate where he started the style in 2010 and won his first gold medal. Then in 2014, he won his second international gold medal in Kata 59 in International Nihon Itosu-kai Tournament held in Soka University, USA. He won the Best Actor award at an international school-level stage drama competition. During two consecutive years 2011 and 2012, Devnaka won the national colors in cultural dancing by winning the first place in interschool national level cultural dancing competition. In 2011, he again won the first place in "male Kadu Saramba" and in 2012, won the first place in Folk Dancing Raban in All Sri Lanka Dancing and Drama Competition organized by the Ministry of Education. He also learned Kandyan dancing from Prof. Mudiyanse Dissanayake.

In 2009, he acted in the television serial Ganga Addara which was the television adaptation of Sumitra Peries’ film Ganga Addara based on Laticia Boteju's novel. During the same period, he appeared in the serial Gehenu Lamai made as an adaptation of the 1978 blockbuster film Gehenu Lamai directed by Sumitra Peries. In the same year, he made a lead role in the blockbuster film Gharasarapa directed by Jayantha Chandrasiri. In the film, he played as the young 'Sandares Edirisinghe' with Kavindya Adhikari as 'Vidya'. For his role, Devnaka won the Award for The Best Upcoming Actor at both Lux Derana Film Awards and the Presidential Film Festival.

In 2020 on his birthday, he released the song "Paadaparicharika". In 2020, he appeared in the television mini serial Podu. Since 2019, he has made three more originals: Wishwaye (2019), Pansal (2020) and Ashawiye (2021).

Television serials

Year Teledrama Role Ref. 2008 Sihina Wasanthayak Nirmal 2009 Ganga Addara Ranjith / Nisal 2009 Gehenu Lamai Tissa 2012 Bharyawo Subhash 2018 Siddhartha Gauthama Prince Nanda 2019 Ahas Maliga Thejan 2020 Podu Dilan 2022 Hitha Langa Hinehuna Sihina 2022 Nannaththara

Filmography

Year Film Role Ref. 2008 Pitasakwala Kumarayai Pancho Hathai Podda 2009 May 20th Sanuth 2010 Juse Vaz young Joseph Vaz 2018 Gharasarapa Sandares Edirisinghe TBD Number 9 Sithum

Awards Derana Film Awards

Presidential Film Awards

SIGNIS International Film Awards

Honorary Awards