Jake Vithana was born in Nottingham 1994 to Actress Kim Vithana (Holby City, Coronation Street, North Square) and Actor Jimmi Harkishin (Coronation Street). His Step-Father is producer Neil Zeiger (Monolo, The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Lamb). Vithana has Sri Lankan, Portuguese, Dutch, Indian and Jewish ancestry.
Vithana studied Philosophy & Politics at the University of Essex but would regularly skip lectures to sit in on Film seminars. Since then, he has worked in HETV, commercials and a number of short films.
As of 2022, six short films written by Vithana have been produced and he works as an in-house Line Producer at ArtsEd London.