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Iranganie, the Brilliant Star at 96, determined to guard the planet ‘Love the environment; the environment will return and love you’ Source:Dailymirror After her graduation with a BA at the University of Ceylon, she left to join the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, England, where she studied drama helped by actresses Sybil Thorndike and Flora Robson, and followed it with a one year course at Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art in London.  Her career began in English school theatre, acting in Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion at Girls’ High School, playing Professor Higgins. She studied dancing under Chithrasena and acted under Professor Ludowyk at Peradeniya. At Peradeniya Iranganie became a Marxist and worked with Doric de Souza, Peter Kehnemann, and Bernard Soysa, who invited her to contest parliamentary elections from the LSSP.   The veteran film and tele star Iranganie Roxanna [Meedeniya] ...