Yashoda Wimaladharma is a Sri Lankan award-winning film and TV actress. It was her uncle, Bandula Withanage, also a director, who encouraged her to take up a role in his 1985 TV serial Atta Bindei. This encouraged her to take up more challenging onscreen roles, which led to her making her debut in Guru Gedara (1990). Since then she has starred in various movies like Le prix d'une femme (1993), Anantha Rathriya (1996), Mother Alone (1997), Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor (1997), Iqbal (1998), Fire & Water (2002), Guerilla Marketing (2005), Butterfly Symphony (2013), Maharaja Gemunu (2015) and Vaishnavee (2017). Over the years Yashoda has continued working in TV shows such as Doowaru (2012) and Kutu Kutu Mama (2015). In 2003 Yashoda launched her personal website- http://www.yashodaw.com/ , akin to a fan website, a first of its kind by a Sri Lankan actress.