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Swetha (born 31 March 1984), popularly known as Rakshita, is a South Indian film actress. She has acted in Kannada, Tamil and Telugu language films. Rakshita made her acting debut in the 2002 Kannada-language film Appu, alongside Puneet Rajkumar, following which, she acted in many Kannada and Telugu films.

Rakshita was brought up in Bangalore. Her father B. C. Gowrishankar was a popular cinematographer who had worked to all actors and many hit movies of his time and her mother Mamatha Rao who acted in Hosa Belaku.

Rakshita started her career with a Kannada movie Appu with Puneeth Rajkumar. She also acted in the remake of the same movie in Telugu titled Idiot and in Tamil titled "Dum". In Tamil she acted alongside Silambarasan also known as "Simbu". Her Kannada film career as heroine got a twist when her movie Kalasipalya became a hit. Within a short period of time, Rakshita acted with major Telugu heroes such as Chiranjeevi, Nagarjuna, Mahesh Babu, Jr NTR, Jagapathi Babu and Ravi Teja and in Tamil she got opportunity to act with Ilayathalapathy Vijay. She also made a special appearance in a song in Lakshmi Narasimha.

After her marriage to the director Prem, she cut down on her acting profession and began supporting him in film making. She, later turned as producer with her home banner Prem Pictures, for one of the most prestigious project Jogayya starring Shivarajkumar marking his 100th movie in the lead, directed by Prem.