She won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Achuvinte Amma (2005), which was her comeback movie after a period of 6 years.

[7] She has won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress a record six times, including three consecutive wins from 1989 to 1991.

Urvashi was born to popular drama actors Chavara V. P. Nair and Vijayalakshmi in Kollam district.

She started her acting career as a child artist, at the age of 10, in a Malayalam movie Kathirmandapam, released in 1979, as Jayabharathi's daughter.

Then she acted as a heroine, at the age of 13, to Karthik in the movie Thodarum Uravu, which completed shooting in 1983, but released in 1986.

[7] Her first released film as heroine was Munthanai Mudichchu (Tamil, directed by K. Bhagyaraj) in 1983, making her debut movie.

During the peak of her career, she starred in M. P. Sukumaran Nair's award-winning film Kazhakam in 1995[14], without taking a single penny as remuneration.