Full Name : Neidra Evelyn Williams

 

Hometown : Colombo  

 

Status : Married

 

Birthday : 1 August

 

Idols : None 

 

Passions : Theatre 

 

Favourite Colour : Lots

 

Favourite Cartoon : Ice Age I

 

 

How were you as a kid? 

Very quiet

 

What made you enter media? 

My mum was in media (Radio) so media was a part of my life 

 

What do you think about TV and Radio today? 

Don’t watch local TV - so can’t give an opinion. There are a lot of radio stations. A few are very good, others have just not got the mix right.

 

Whose wardrobe would you most like to possess and why? 

No one’s. I like mine ! 

 

What last made you laugh? 

Probably something you said at rehearsal recently.  

 

Tel me about your new play “A Christmas wish”? 

It’s a musical. It’s got all the ingredients : romance, action, adventure, laughter, good fighting evil and of course lots of singing and dancing.  

 

A little bit about the story line? 

It’s about a little boy who wishes for a new dad, since his dad is dead, and how Santa Claus helps to fulfill his wish. 

 

Do you like going to the gym? 

I neither like nor dislike it. It’s something I have to do…. So I do it. 

 

What are your nicknames? 

Just the one……Ned

 

3 things you cannot live without?

1. My Phone

2. My diary

3. Lip balm

 

What is the last thing you do before you go to bed? 

Read

 

Name someone you can tell just about anything to? 

Jehan (husband)

 

What's the one thing you'd like to do but haven't done yet? 

Be in a film

 

 

If...

 

If you were another person would you be friends with you? 

Absolutely

 

If you were a flavour of an ice cream, what would you be? 

Chocolate

 

If you could have any job, what would you want to do/be? 

Actor

 

If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation where would you go? 

Europe

 

If you woke up one morning looking like me, you will… 

Scream!!!

 

 

 

In the Spot!

 

Would you rather be hated or forgotten? 

Hated 

 

Dominic Kellar/ Anurutha Fernando - In your opinion who is a better “Puss”? 

Both are very good actors and interpreted the role differently. I can’t pick one over the other.  

 

Feroze / Jerome / Jehan Aloysius - Who’s your personal favourite? 

Haven’t worked under the directorship of either Feroze or Jehan Aloysius, while I have worked under Jerome’s guidance, intermittently, since I was eleven years old.  When I was a kid and visited my mum at SLBC (where Jerome also worked at that time) he would take me around the place and draw funny cartoons to entertain me. Who do you think is my personal favourite? 

 

Faizal Bonzo/Arun Dias Bandaranaike - Who would you pick for an event?

I have worked with both of them not only as MCs but also in media, Arun (Radio) Faizal (TV). Both have a great work ethic and are easy to work with.  

 

 

Who is your all-time favourite Miss Sri Lanka? 

I don’t know too many Miss Sri Lankas to comment here. But have to say that I admire Rosy Senanayake for her poise and sense of presence. 

 

 

 

Five things that make you smile

 

1. My kids – when they do something to help each other

2. My cats – when I see them rolled up together at the end of the bed  

3. When a play or even a scene in a play I have been struggling with finally comes together and it’s exactly the way I imagined

4. When after a gourmet meal the night before my scale says I am still the same weight the next morning… doesn’t happen often though 

5. Jehan, when he says he is going to retire at the age of fifty… I really laugh at that one!!

 

 

Just for Fun

 

Were you named after anyone? No 

 

Do you like your handwriting? It gets me by….

 

Do you untie your shoes when you take them off? Always 

 

Do you think you are strong? Sometimes…. And weak at other times 

 

Red or pink? Red 

 

Favourite smells? Perfume Romance by Ralph Lauren  

 

Hugs or kisses? Depends from whom…. 

 

Computer or television? Television for entertainment. Computer to keep my life in order

 

Rolling stones or Beatles? Beatles