Shantha Mayadunne
{{Short description|Sri Lankan chef and television personality (1951–2019)}}
{{Infobox person
|name = Shantha Mayadunne
|birth_date = 4 April 1951
|birth_place = Sri Lanka
|nationality = Sri Lankan
|occupation = Chef, television personality
|spouse = Kumar Mayadunne
|children = Nisanga Mayadunne, Tharanga Mayadunne
|death_date = 21 April 2019 (aged 68)
|death_place = Sharngril-la Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka
}}
Shantha Mayadunne ({{langx|si|ශාන්තා මායාදුන්නේ}}; 4 April 1951 – 21 April 2019) was a Sri Lankan chef and television personality.
Career
She had thirty years of experience in the culinary arts and became one of the most popular Sri Lankan television chefs.{{cite news |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-22/celebrity-chef-and-daughter-killed-in-sri-lanka-attacks/11035828 |publisher=ABC News Australia |date=22 April 2019 |orig-year=21 April 2019 |title=Shantha Mayadunne, TV chef, killed in Sri Lanka attacks just minutes after Easter breakfast selfie }} She learned advanced international cooking techniques at cooking schools in many countries including Australia, UK, Singapore, Thailand and India. As her popularity grew, she started to conduct classes, through workshops and mass media programs. She published two books, the first in 2001 and the second in 2005.{{cite web|url=http://www.weddingchannel.lk/directory/shantha-mayadunne|title=Shantha Mayadunne - Wedding Detail|website=weddingchannel.lk|accessdate=2019-04-21|archive-date=21 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190421142901/http://www.weddingchannel.lk/directory/shantha-mayadunne/|url-status=dead}}
Death
She was killed together with her daughter on 21 April 2019 by a suicide bomber during a series of terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka, while they were both at the Shangri-La Hotel in Colombo for breakfast.{{cite news |author=Frank Miles |url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/sri-lanka-church-hotel-massacre-victims-tv-chef-mother-son-americans |title=Sri Lanka church, hotel massacre victims include TV chef, mother and son, Americans |publisher=Fox News |date=22 April 2019 |accessdate=2019-04-23 }}{{cite news |author1=Katie Mettler |author2=Michael Brice-Saddler |url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Celebrity-chef-children-of-Danish-billionaire-13784997.php |title=At least four Americans are among the dead in Sri Lanka bombings, State Department confirms |newspaper=The Washington Post |via=San Francisco Chronicle |date=22 April 2019 |accessdate=2019-04-22 }}
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Category:Sri Lankan television chefs
Category:Sri Lankan terrorism victims
Category:Sri Lankan murder victims
Category:Place of birth missing
Category:21st-century Sri Lankan women writers
Category:21st-century Sri Lankan writers
Category:People murdered in Sri Lanka
Category:2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings
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