Anjala Zaveri grew up in a conservative Gujarati family in Portsmouth, England. She has an elder sister and a younger brother.

She completed her A-Levels and was about to pursue medicine, when she took a break to act in movies.

Anjala Zaveri was discovered by Vinod Khanna in a nationwide search in England, and debuted with Himalay Putra, which also marked Vinod's son Akshaye Khanna's film debut. She acted in Betaabi. The only hit film in which she acted was the 1998 blockbuster romantic comedy, Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya, starring Salman Khan and Kajol. In the same year, she starred opposite Chiranjeevi in the Telugu movie, Choodalani Vundi.

She was very successful in Tollywood films. She was introduced to Tollywood by Suresh Productions in movie Preminchukundam Raa opposite Venkatesh. She has done Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam films as well, working with actors like Nandamuri Balakrishna, Nagarjuna and Mammootty.