Namitha was
born in Kumarakom as the daughter of Pramod, a businessman and Indu, a
housewife. She has a younger sister Akhita Pramod. She did her schooling at
Carmel Girls Higher Secondary School in Thiruvananthapuram. She was enrolled at
the St. Teresa's College to pursue a BA degree in Sociology in June 2014. She
has stated that she was "not going to let [her] acting career compromise
[her] studies". Serial actor Kumarakom Raghunath is her father's brother.
In 2014, she
was first seen in En Kadhal Pudhithu, her debut Tamil film directed by Maaris
Kumar which had a delayed release, followed by Lijin Jose's Law Point in which
she played a modern, city bred girl named Maya. In Lal Jose's Vikramadithyan,
she played the role of Deepika, a Konkani girl, which required her to speak a
few lines in Konkani, a language she had never used before. Her next film
Villali Veeran, in which she paired once again with Dileep, had her playing the
role of an ad filmmaker.
Her last
release in 2014 was Ormayundo Ee Mukham, a romantic drama in which she was cast
opposite Vineeth Sreenivasan.Her latest release of 2015 is Chandrettan Evideya.
Her recently released Malayalam movie Amar Akbar Anthony starring Prithviraj,
Jayasurya and Indrajit directed by popular stage artist Nadirshah where she
played a role as a dancer was a blockbuster hit in Malayalam theatres.