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Nimmi Harasgama is a British-Sri Lankan award winning actor and writer. In May 2021 Nimmi was nominated for best "Drama Performance" by the British National Television Awards for her portrayal of series regular Nurse Mari on The Good Karma Hospital (ITV).
In 2020 Nimmi played the female lead, Amma/Nalini, in Deepa Mehta's film Funny Boy.
Nimmi acts in English, Sinhala, and Tamil. Her performance in the Sinhala film August Sun won her the Best Actress award at the Las Palmas International Film Festival and the Vishwa Keerthi, the highest arts award in Sri Lanka. She was the lead in the Tamil short I Too Have A Name, which was in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Nimmi plays series regular, Nurse Mari, on The Good Karma Hospital which is set to film its fourth series in 2021. She can also be seen in the Netflix series Requiem as Detective Alice Brenton.
In British Indie film Hello Darling Nimmi she plays Aanya. The film has won numerous Best Film awards internationally.
Nimmi began her career in theatre. Her last theatre appearance was as the Snow Queen in the West End production of The Snow Queen.
Nimmi has written all her life but her first published/performed work was commissioned by UK theatre company Tamasha. Auntie Netta's Holiday For Asylum was a one woman show based on her YouTube character Auntie Netta. The show premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Her play 'My Homemade Kite' was part of Kali Theatre's (UK) 'Women In War' Series and had a rehearsed reading at Tristan Bates Theatre. She is currently in development to have a full production both in the UK and the US.
Her TV show Brown Girl Panic has been optioned by Blue Bear Production Company and recently had a rehearsed reading commissioned by SKY TV (UK). She is also a story consultant and writer for an animated series that is in development by Blue Bear Productions.
Nimmi is co-writing a screenplay based on an Indian novel for GURU productions.
Her most recent character, Brûlée, a parody of social media influencers, has taken Sri Lankan Instagram by storm. Brûlée joins Auntie Netta, Nimmi's longtime YouTube character who was reborn during the 80 days of 24/7 COVID-19 curfew her family experienced in Sri Lanka. Auntie Netta became a Goodwill Ambassador for WHO's Sri Lanka's campaign on educating people about COVID-19 safety during that time.
Nimmi is a committed for Human Rights advocate. She has a BA in Drama and Theatre Arts from Goldsmiths College (University of London). She trained at Groundlings Improv School and Lesly Kahn & Co Drama School in LA. and the New York Film Academy in NYC. During and after the war in Sri Lanka, Nimmi utilized her training with John Martin (Pan Intercultural Arts) and Augusto Boal (Theatre for the Oppressed) in her work with war and tsunami affected children and young adults. These projects were located in the North and East and were conducted through the British Council and Save The Children. She has also worked with young adult refugees In the UK through Pan Intercultural Arts.
Much of Nimmi's writing has to do with her own experiences of being an immigrant and her work with refugees.- Samadhi Laksiri is known for The Strange Familiar (2014).
- Thushari is an American actress of South Asian origin born in the delightful island of Sri Lanka situated in the Indian Ocean, and raised in beautiful Southern California, USA. She had a passion for the creative: performing and writing from an early age. She loves sketch comedy, stage, drama, improv, sitcoms, performance art, street theatre, and anything to do with the performing arts. She writes her own sketch, performance art and poetry pieces. She loves reading, watching films and listening to music: all types of music including Sinhala and Tamil cultural music. She is known for her good performance work, volunteering and for being outspoken. She has played supporting and leading roles on stage, television and independent film projects. Her breakthrough role on television is that of Pinky on NBC sitcom Outsourced.
- Sanju Samarawickrama is known for Vanished (2015) and Supernatural Activity (2017).
- Born in Sri Lanka. Grew up in Calgary, Alberta. Started her studies in Piano, Speech & Drama and Singing at the age of 6. Invited to study Opera at McGill University, she left Calgary and moved to Montreal and finished her degree in Music and Voice Performance there. However, Imali opted to continue pursuing her love for theatre and moved to Toronto where she resides now and has many accolades for her theatrical roles.
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Stefan Wanigatunga was born in California and raised in Alaska. He attended Seattle University and received a Film Studies degree in 2013. Stefan founded an after school filmmaking program for youth. He attended UCLA Film School and received an MFA in Film Directing/Production in 2019. Stefan started Sunset 8 to develop, produce, and distribute motion picture films.- Thusitha Jayasundera was born in 1971 in Sri Lanka. She is an actress, known for The Foreigner (2017), Doctor Foster: A Woman Scorned (2015) and The Bill (1984). She has been married to Simon Allen since 2002. They have one child.
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Menik Gooneratne is a Sri Lankan-Australian actress and writer whose films have grossed over $500 million worldwide. Born in England, she spent her youth travelling to developing countries due to her father's UN work in combating climate change, before finally settling in Australia. She is best known for her roles in Peter Jackson's sci-fi epic Mortal Engines (2018), Oscar-nominated film Lion (2016) and her 111 episode run as series regular on the iconic Australian TV series Neighbours (2011-2013).