Pooja made her acting debut in
Selvaraghavan's
Mayakkam Enna (2011) portraying Padmini, a friend in
Dhanush's gang. Pooja then joined the theatre group
Stray Factory and has worked on stage performances and online videos with the company. Notably, she starred as Zorro in an interpretation of
The Three Musketeers in December 2012. in 2013, she made her directorial debut was the play
Maya from Madurai written by
Naren Weiss. In 2015, she worked on the production of four films, including roles in
Karthik Subbaraj's
Iraivi and Manikandan's
Kutramum Thandanaiyum. In 2018, Pooja made her Kannada debut with the film
Katheyondu Shuruvagide, directed by
Senna Hegde. She is half Kannadiga from her mother's side. She has worked for Lokesh Kanagaraj's 2022 Kamal Haasan starrer
Vikram, in which she was the performance coach for Vijay Sethupathi with particular emphasis on his body language for this role. Her association with Vijay Sethupathi has been a long one and she is his performance coach for both the Sriram Raghavan film
Merry Christmas and Kishor Pandurang Belekar's upcoming silent feature
Gandhi Talks. ==Filmography==