At a young age when she was a MSU student in Malaysia, Vanessa was crowned the winner of World Miss University Malaysia 2018, defeating 32 other participants. She made her lead film debut in the Malaysian
Tamil film
Athaiyum Thaandi Punithamanathu (2021) in which she announced that she will play the lead role in the film. She made her first television debut in India in the survival reality show
Survivor (Tamil season 1) as a contestant. Vanessa also played a small role in the television comedy show
Kalyana Kumar in 2017. She has acted in various different small budget short films in Malaysia as a lead. She is the co founder of Vikadakavi productions which is a program for young learning models. In 2021, Vanessa turned into a director and started directing a Malaysian
Tamil drama,
Nethraa which was released in July 2021. She was later crowned as
Miss Fitness Asia International in 2021. She was also one of the top 15 finalists and represented her home state
Selangor in the beauty pageant, Miss
Malaysia Kebaya. == Filmography ==