Gandhimathi (30 August 1940 – 9 September 2011) was an Indian stage and film actress.
She started acting in dramas and entered films at the age of eleven.
Other important Tamil films in which she acted include Mann Vasanai, Muthu and Karagattakaran.
She acted as mother and grandmother almost to all actors and actresses like M.G.R, Rajinikanth, Kamalhassan, Vijaykanth, Sathyaraj, Prabhu, Vijay, Revathi, Radha, Ambika, Radhika, etc.
Other actors or actresses cannot utter the non-lexical filler proverbs like "Chithada kalli viragu odaika ponalam kathala mullu kothoda kuthidichan" (When a lazy girl is forced to go for the work of cutting the firewood she may complain that aloe vera thorns poked her in a bunch) like she could.