Galhenage Rathnapala Perera (Sinhala: ජී.ආර්.පෙරේරා; 13 November 1939 – 1 May 2023) was an actor in Sri Lankan cinema, theatre and television.
Rathnapala Perera was born on 13 November 1939[1] in Kirulapana,[2] British Ceylon, as the first child of the family.
He received his education from Rattanapitiya Ananda Vidyalaya and Kotahena Prince College, Colombo 13.
[4] Abeysekara, along with Perera, Prema Ranjith Thilakaratna, Dharmasiri Wickramaratna, and Wickrama Bogoda formed a drama group Ape Kattiya led by dramatist Sugathapala de Silva.
His youngest daughter, Yamuna Erandathi, is a teledrama actress and an honours graduate in Information Technology.