Usharani was born as eldest among three children at Chennai to Tamilian Father Mothi and a Malayali mother Sudeshini. She hails from Varkkala, Kerala. Her father was a Saurashtra Oriental Arts cloth merchant .Usharani is an Indian film actress who acted prominently in Malayalam films. She was a lead actress during the late 1970s and early 1980s. She had acted in Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, and Hindi films.She is married to Malayalam movie director N. Sankaran Nair on 1971.The couple has a son Vishnu born on 1981.