Nayanathara Wickramaarachchi
Nayanathara Wickramaarachchi (born 22 January 1998) is an actress in Sri Lankan cinema, television and theatre. One of the most popular television actresses in Sri Lanka, she is a recipient of the most popular actress award in three consecutive years at Raigam Tele'es and four consecative years at SLIM-Nielsen Peoples Awards. Also She is the recipient of most popular actress award in Sumathi Awards 2017. She is best known for the role as "Dewmi" in popular television serial Deweni Inima.

=Personal life=
She was born on January 22, 1998 in Colombo. Her mother is Samanthi Sandanayake. Educated at Sandalanka Maha Vidyalaya, she later entered Madduma Bandara Maha Vidyalaya, Weliweriya and studied G.C.E Ordinary Level and G.C.E Advanced Level. Nayanathara completed her higher studies and entered to the Sri lankan Film industry.

=Acting Career=
Before starting acting, she studied acting for about a year at Mayakshakti drama studio conducted by Dharmajith Punarjeeva. She first appeared in a stage play "Ragena Avi Mamada Emi" of Bertol Brest adaptation in the public stage. After that, she had no opportunity to make time for the stage.

She started acting career in 2015 with the teledrama "Hansa Pihatu" which was telecast by Swarnawahini directed by Jayaprakash Sivagurunathan. Then she appeared in many serials such as "Meedumen Eha", "Eran Landu" and "Praana". However, her breakthrough performance in television came through soap opera "Deweni Inima" telecast by TV Derana. Her role as "Dewmi" become highly popular among audiences of all ages and she won the award for the Most Popular Actress in multiple times at several local award festivals for her role.

In 2017, Nayanathara Wickramaarachchi won the Most Popular Actress Award at the Raigam Tele'es Awards and Sumathi Awards. In 2018,2019,2020 and 2021 she won the Most Popular actress of the year award at SLIM-Nielsen Peoples Awards.

Her maiden cinematic experience came through the film "Maa" Anuruddha Jayasinghe. However it is not yet released. Her first released film was 2018 film "Eka Dawasaka Api" directed by Anuruddha Jayasinghe.
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