Uma Shankari jarumar wasan kwaikwayo ce ta kasar Indiya wacce ta fito a cikin fina-finan yankin Indiya da dama. A cikin shekara ta 2006, ta fito a cikin ' Yan uwan Sakthi Chidambaram na Kovai Brothers a gaban Sibiraj, inda ta fito a matsayin ' yar 'yar'uwar Sathyaraj sannan kuma an nuna ta a Thodamaley tare da sabbin shiga. Ta kuma yi aiki a cikin 'yan serials kamar Chikamma (maimaitawar shahararren sanannen Tamil "Chithi" a Kannada) da Valli (sabon Serial na Tamil). Uma an haife ta 'ya ga D. Rajendra Babu, darektan kasuwanci a masana'antar fim ta Kannada, da kuma 'yar fim Sumithra, wacce ta fito a fina-finan Indiya na yanki. Kanwarta, Nakshatra, ita ce ta fara fitowa a fim din Doo a shekara ta 2011. Bayan fina-finai, ta yi karatun BA, adabin Turanci a Jami'ar Indira Gandhi Open. Daga ƙarshe ta auri injiniya H. Dushyanth a Bangalore a ranar 15 ga watan Yuni na watan shekara ta 2006 kuma ta ƙi amincewa da sanya hannu kan kowane fim daga baya.