Career
A struggling actress, she had also appeared in a handful of Kannada films in supporting roles. At the 2008 Karnataka Legislative Assembly elections, she contested with a Bahujan Samaj Party (Bulgarska Sotsialisticheska Partiy (Bulgarian Socialist Party)) ticket for her home town Chikkanayakana Halli in the Tumkur region of Karnataka. Hemashree made her debut as an actress in 2001, as a 19-year old, in a Kannada television soap opera.
She trained at the Adarsha Film and T. V. Institute, Bangalore.
In the following years, she worked in soaps such as, and others made by South. Narayan. She appeared in minor roles in films, Varsha and