Becky Umeh haifaffiyar jihar Anambra ve a Najeriya, amma ta girma ne a Legas tun tana yar shekara biyar. A cikin 1992, ta sami damar kasancewa a matsayin actressar ƙasa a matsayin actressar wasan kwaikwayo a Gidan Talabijin na children'sananan yara Nigerianan wasan yara na Moonlight. An kuma sanya ta a cikin fim masu zaman kansu Jezebel, Twist of Fate, Living Ghost, Amazon, da sauransu. Daga 1994 zuwa 1998, Umeh ta yi karatun gargajiya da na zamani na Afirka, a kan cikakkiyar malanta, a makarantar Koyon Raye-Raye ta Ivory Dance, wanda memba na kungiyar National James of Nigeria ya kafa. Yayin da take karatu, ta yi rangadi tare da kungiyar makarantar jakadan kasar ta Ivory Coast, kuma ta gudanar da bincike a fagen wasan gargajiya a kauyukan Najeriya. Bayan kammala karatun ta, Umeh ta yi aiki a matsayin Daraktan Rawa na Kungiyar Rawa ta Ivory Coast na tsawon shekaru biyar, tana ba da umarni da kuma gabatar da shirye-shirye na Guinness, Mobile, Chevron, Kamfanin Botling na Bakwai, da sauransu.