A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Priya Ragaratnam
Priya Rajarathnam
Birthplace:
Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Priya Rajaratnam is a Canadian actress and dancer born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. She grew up in Monchengladbach, Germany and Vancouver, Canada. Priya is trained in Bharatanatyam (classical Indian dance) from the age of five for over a decade. Priya was also trained in Karnatic singing and Violin.Priya first discovered her passion for the art of acting while watching a professional acting class in Vancouver, BC. She pursued her curiosity and studied Theatre Performance at Simon Fraser University. She appeared in numerous student and independent films, as well as stage plays before she began auditioning for network TV shows and feature films.
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.