Madhurima Tuli was born in Dehradun, Uttarakhand Her father works for Tata Steel, her mother works for an NGO, and she has a younger brother Tuli made an early debut in the Telugu film Saththaa 2004 opposite Sai Kiran She moved to Mumbai and studied acting at the Kishore Namit Kapoor Acting School, worked as a model doing advertisements for brands like Godrej Fiama Di Wills and Karbonn Mobiles, and in 2007 had a small part in Kasturi, a soap opera that aired on STAR Plus channel.In 2008 she played a supporting role as the pretty girl Satya in Homam an Indian thriller written and directed by J. D. Chakravarthy and to some extend inspired by the 2006 Hollywood movie, The Departed, directed by Martin Scorsese more.