Rakshita is a South Indian actress, who has acted in Kannada, Tamil and Telugu movies. She started her career with a Kannada movie Appu produced by Smt.Parvathamma Rajkumar with Puneeth Rajkumar as the co-star.

She is the daughter of veteran Kannada heroine Mamtha Rao and Cinematographer B.C.Gourishankar. She was called by the Telugu film industry also for the remake of the same movie as the heroine. It was named as Idiot.

Her Kannada film career as heroine got a twist when her movie Kalasipalya became a hit. She was considered as the BOMB heroine in Kannada industry. She retired from the industry as the heroine after her marriage with popular Kannada cinema director Prem