Apte was born in India’s Tamil Nadu state of Vellore. At the Christian Medical College & Hospital, Vellore, her parents were both medical students and staff members. Later on, her father Dr. Charudutt Apte worked as a neurosurgeon and served as the chairman of Sahyadri Hospital in Pune. She holds a degree in mathematics and economics from Fergusson College in Pune. She began her education in a regular school in Pune before being home-schooled alongside four of her friends by their parents, who also lived in the same building and opposed sending their kids to a traditional school. This experience gave Apte more confidence, which she found to be liberating.
Apte studied Kathak for eight years under Rohini Bhate while growing up in Pune. Apte started participating in theatre during this time and made the decision to move to Mumbai to join the film industry. Apte left her family in Pune a few months later after becoming disheartened by her time in Mumbai. In a 2018 interview with Scoop Whoop, Apte described these experiences as instructive but demoralising. She described how she made due with her salary of Rs. 8,000 to Rs. 10,000 from theatre roles and dealing with eccentric house owners and roommates in Goregaon, where she lived as a paying guest. During this time, Apte appeared in her debut movie, “Gho mala asala hawa” (2009), which was a Marathi film.
Her first Hindi movie, Shor in the City, came next. She then appeared in Rakta Charitra, Rakta Charitra 2, and “I am” after that. When she got back to Pune, Apte decided on the spot to spend a year in London studying contemporary dance at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Apte describes her time in London as having changed her life because it introduced her to a totally new and liberating way of approaching her career.
Her future husband Benedict, who later moved to Pune with her and frequently travelled to Mumbai for work while Apte still resisted going back to Mumbai because of her earlier experience, was there when she first met him. She finally decided to relocate to Mumbai after a year, and her second time there was much better because she no longer felt alone.
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In 2005, Radhika Apte made her acting debut in a minor role in the Hindi film Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi!, which she completed “just for fun” while attending college. Director Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury cast Apte in his Bengali film Antaheen alongside Aparna Sen, Sharmila Tagore, and actor Rahul Bose after the latter had seen Apte perform in Anahita Oberoi’s play Bombay Black. In Antaheen, she portrayed TV journalist Brinda Roy Menon.
“With eyes that speak a thousand words, her passion for work and the loneliness of her heart as she waits to chat every night with that special stranger just strikes the right chord,” wrote Riddhima Seal for The Times of India. She also referred to Apte as a “revelation.” The 2009 film Gho Mala Asla Hava by Sumitra Bhave and Sunil Sukthankar, in which Apte played the role of Savitri, a village girl, was her first Indian release. The Hindi documentary Mor Dekhne Jungle Mein was her next project with Bhave and Sukthankar.
She also contributed to the films Samaantar by Amol Palekar and Akash Khurana as well as Jatin Wagle’s Ek Indian Manoos and Akash Khurana’s Life Online, which is about “a group of young people working in a BPO.” She first appeared in the thriller The Waiting Room by Maneej Premnath in 2010, and she later played a significant role in the films Rakta Charitra and its sequel by Ram Gopal Varma. After returning from London, Apte was offered a part in a big-budget Hindi film, but she was (in her words) rejected because they thought she was too fat for the role. In 2011, Apte made appearances in Ekta Kapoor’s Balaji Motion Pictures’ I Am anthology movie and Shor in the City.
On Ha Bharat Majha (2012), a movie made in 14 days and inspired by the Anna Hazare movement, she collaborated with the Bhave-Sukthankar team for the third time. The movie screened at numerous film festivals. Tukaram, a Marathi film, and Dhoni, a Tamil film, were her other two 2012 releases. She received a SIIMA Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her work in the latter. She appeared in the 2013 Bengali film Rupkatha Noy. She described her role as Sananda, a three-year-old single mother who works as an IT engineer. Sananda’s terrible past follows her around like a ghost.
Postcard, Pendulum, Legend, and Vetri Selvan, in Bengali, Telugu, and Tamil, respectively, were Apte’s first four 2014 releases. Postcard, Pendulum, and Vetri Selvan were followed by the release of another one of Apte’s movies, Lai Bhaari. She played a working woman in a relationship with a younger man in Pendulum, which Apte described as a “story on magic realism which takes you through multiple layers of parallel realities, or apparent realities,” as opposed to her role as a lawyer in Vetri Selvan. Commercial successes included Legend and Lai Bhaari, with the latter smashing the record for the opening weekend box office and becoming the all-time highest-grossing Marathi film.