Abhirami was born as Divya to Gopikumar and Pushpa. She has acted in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films. Abhirami acted for the first time in director Adoor Gopalakrishnan's film Kathapurushan. he acted in films such as Millennium Stars, Njangal Santhushtaranu, and Sradha before shifting to Tamil cinema. She take a long break after the movie Virumaandi in 2004 and re-entered in 2013.