---
name: "Akushula Selayah"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/akushula-selayah"
fi1m_id: "akushula-selayah"
tmdb_id: 2629422
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 January 1958"
died: "16 March 2025"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T17:39:21.929834+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Akushula Selayah

## Identity

Akushula Selayah

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/akushula-selayah
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** akushula-selayah
- **TMDB ID:** 2629422
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2629422

Actor. Born 1 January 1958 in Srilanka. Died 16 March 2025.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1958, Srilanka
- **Died:** 16 March 2025
- **Also known as:** Akushla Sellajaah
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2629422

## Biography

Akushula Selayah, also credited as Akushla Sellajaah, was a Sri Lankan actor. She appeared as Sura in the Italian film *Slave of the Cannibal God* (1978) and as Nambia (Africa) in *Tarzan the Ape Man* (1981).

Selaya acted in several Sinhala-language films, including *Rampage* (1978), *Thavalama* (1981), *Bandura Mal* (1981), *Re Manamali* (1982), *Hithath Hodai Wedath Hodai* (1983) and *Suraduthiyo* (1985). She was also a prominent fashion model and is described in Sri Lankan sources as the country’s first supermodel.

*Sources: imdb.com, films.lk, colombogazette.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Tarzan the Ape Man* (1981), Fi1m 30, as Nambia (Africa) — [page](https://film.one/film/tarzan-the-ape-man.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Tarzan the Ape Man* (1981), as Nambia (Africa) — Fi1m 30, [page](https://film.one/film/tarzan-the-ape-man.md)
- *Slave of the Cannibal God* (1978), as Sura

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