Nilmini Buwaneka


Nilmini Buwaneka is an actress, dancer and choreographer from Sri Lanka.

Dancing

She learned dancing in Bhatkhande Music Institute, where she gained a Diploma in Baratha Natyam.

Theater

Nilmini has portrayed many leading roles for the most thriving directors in the drama and theater field of Sri Lanka, and in many non-commercial stage plays such as:
Nilmini has acted in a Total of 45 Television serials ranges from drama, thriller to comedy.

Selected television serials

Having had the opportunity to work as an Assistant Director alongside Dharmasiri Bandaranayake a Director who marked an era of movie making in Sri Lanka, Nilmini was praised by foreign critics after seeing her own direction of a stage plays using only children engulfed by Down syndrome.

Cinema

Playing characters in both leading as well as supporting roles in several movies, her distinctiveness remains that of acting only in handpicked special creations of cinema.
YearFilmRoleDirectorNotes
1997Bawa Duka
1997Bawa Karma
2009Ekamath Eka Rateka
2009BinduSaping's wife
2014Samige KathawaSam's mother
2015Bora Diya Pokuna
TBDBahuchithawadiyaSasitha's sisterMalaka Dewapriya
TBDPaangshu-

Awards

In 2004 she won the State Drama Award Festival for Best Actress in a leading role followed by the award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the Sumathi Tele Drama Award Festival in 2008.