Daisy Bopanna's family hails from Coorg/Kodagu, known as Kodavas / Coorgs. Born on 4th December 1984, Daisy did her schooling from Aurobindo School, pre-university at Kumarans College and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Chitrakala Parishat [C.K.P] in Bangalore, Karnataka.

Being academically proficient, Daisy was interested in pursuing a career in computers and did enroll for software courses in Aptech. but the call of the entertainment industry proved too strong and she put on hold her software ambitions and opted to work in front of the camera.

She initially wanted to be a copywriter and run her own ad agency, but she started with theatre, working for a short time with B. Jayasri’s Spandana theatre camp and never looked back. Her first movie Bimba was sent to the prestigious Berlin & Frankfurt Film Festival, winning international awards. It was also screened at the Bangkok Film Festival.

Daisy Bopanna made her cinematic debut in a de-glamourised role in the Kannada film Bimba (The image), a film directed by Kavitha Lankesh which explored the exploitation of child artistes in the film industry. But her later work in a movie Bhagavan with Darshan earned her the tag of "spicy Daisy".

She starred in more than 150 ads before being cast in the Priyadarshan movie Garam Masala.