Nayanathara is a Berlin-based actor of Sri Lankan origin. Coming from a conventional background where creative careers were not the obvious choice, her path to acting was not linear. After more than a decade in a different industry, her deliberate attempts to build the career she silently desired, became a reality with her admission to the Catalyst Institute for Creative Arts and Technology in Berlin. 

Being raised in Sri Lanka and having lived in five different countries, today she brings that lived experiences, maturity, cultural perspectives, and grounded intensity to her work in Berlin. She seeks roles that explore complexity and emotional truth and she reflects a strong commitment to queer-inclusive storytelling..

Currently Nayanathra is in the final year of her BA in Acting. While she's still relatively new to the field and her experience is largely limited to Catalyst-based projects, she’s actively working on building her acting career within an international creative landscape and seeking cross-cultural and globally oriented collaborations across stage and screen.