Suman Nagarkar was introduced to the Kannada film industry by the director Sunil Kumar Desai. Nishkarsha was her first movie. She gained popularity from the movies Nammoora Mandara Hoove and Beladingala Baale. She acted in the main role in the movie Beladingala Baale where her face would not be shown to the audience. After appearing in several movies as a side-actress, she performed as heroine in Hoomale directed by Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar. Her last movie was Preethsu Thappenilla.

After a long gap of 15 years, she has returned to acting will be seen in upcoming movies Ishtakamya directed by Nagathihalli Chandrashekar and Re... directed by Sunil Kumar Desai. Also, she runs a weekly show on NammRadio which is first Kannada online radio station run by Pastime Productions Private Limited.

Suman lives with her husband Gurudev Nagaraj in Folsom, California.

• Nishkarsha
• Ammavra Ganda
• Beladingala Baale (1995)
• Nammoora Mandara Hoove
• Hoomale
• Doni Saagali
• Mungaarina Minchu^[3]
• Preethsu Thappenilla (2000)
• Ishtakamya (2015)
• ...Re (2016)
• Jeerjimbe (2017)