Gammada Liyanage Cletus Paulinus Mendis, popularly as Cletus Mendis (born as ක්ලීටස් මෙන්ඩිස් Sinhala) is a Sri Lankan actor, mainly works in cinema and television.
He has received a number of awards for portraying villains at the Sarasaviya, OCIC, Raigam, and Presidential film festivals.
In 1971, before moving to silver screen, Mendis did dramas at church feasts and taught gymnastics and martial arts to the youth at Katupotha.
[1] His first cinema acting came in the 1978 epic history film Veera Puran Appu as a supporting actor.
[1][2] In 2004, Mendis joined Vishva Kala Sarasaviya at Mount Lavinia and met Udayakantha Warnasuriya.