Adah Sharma is the daughter of Narasimhan Sharma, a captain in the merchant navy and her mother Sheila, a yoga teacher. An only child Adah went to Auxilium Convent High School and graduated from Mumbai University with a degree in psychology.The actress has been a singer and dancer since the age of three and prefers yoga to a gym regime. Having completed six years of Kathak from Gopi Krishna's Dance Academy, Adah is also a gymnast and loves to indulge in activities that inspire her. Adah is a pure vegetarian. Her big break came with 1920, where she is working opposite Rajneesh Duggal.
The film is a thrilling love story based in the same year and it has been directed by Vikram Bhatt.As an adolescent, Adah Sharma wanted to do too many things. She eventually found a profession where she could fulfill her dream.That profession is acting – where she daubs the greasepaint and gets to play varied characters that she once dreamt of being, be it a housewife or a model or an architect or a vet. Looking back, Adah sees her struggle from a philosophical perspective. She says she auditioned for various other projects but ‘1920’ turned out to be her first film because that is how it was destined to be.