She made her Tamil film debut with Thupparivaalan (2017), and starred in the commercially successful Namma Veetu Pillai (2019).

Anu Emmanuel was born in the United States on 28 March 1997 and raised in Garland, Texas near Dallas.

[7] Emmanuel made her acting debut as lead in Nivin Pauly starrer Action Hero Biju, directed by Abrid Shine and produced by her father.

In 2018, she was paired opposite to Pawan Kalyan and Allu Arjun in Agnyaathavaasi and Naa Peru Surya respectively.

She appeared in her second Tamil film Namma Veetu Pillai opposite to Sivakarthikeyan which became successful at the box-office.