Trained at AFDA and the Indigo View Academy for Advanced Actors, Chioma made her film debut on a student film, "Look Closer" which was released in 2017, and her stage debut at Joburg Theatre with the production "Scene" in 2018.

Chioma Umeala appeared on three episodes of the American produced discussion show "The Grapevine", and played a supporting role in the to-be-released film, The First Last Tour.