diff --git a/django/core/files/uploadedfile.py b/django/core/files/uploadedfile.py
index b15f8d535f..9fc4bcbbe5 100644
--- a/django/core/files/uploadedfile.py
+++ b/django/core/files/uploadedfile.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ except ImportError:
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.core.files.base import File
 from django.core.files import temp as tempfile
+from django.utils.encoding import smart_str
 
 __all__ = ('UploadedFile', 'TemporaryUploadedFile', 'InMemoryUploadedFile',
            'SimpleUploadedFile')
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@ class UploadedFile(File):
         self.charset = charset
 
     def __repr__(self):
-        return "<%s: %s (%s)>" % (self.__class__.__name__, self.name, self.content_type)
+        return "<%s: %s (%s)>" % (self.__class__.__name__, smart_str(self.name), self.content_type)
 
     def _get_name(self):
         return self._name
diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/file_storage/tests.py b/tests/regressiontests/file_storage/tests.py
index a2b6baa07b..3f059c7f3c 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/file_storage/tests.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/file_storage/tests.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+# coding: utf-8
 """
 Tests for the file storage mechanism
 
@@ -72,6 +73,14 @@ u'custom_storage.2'
 # Cleanup the temp dir
 >>> os.rmdir(temp_dir)
 
+
+# Regression test for #8156: files with unicode names I can't quite figure out the
+# encoding situation between doctest and this file, but the actual repr doesn't
+# matter; it just shouldn't return a unicode object.
+>>> from django.core.files.uploadedfile import UploadedFile
+>>> uf = UploadedFile(name=u'¿Cómo?',content_type='text')
+>>> uf.__repr__()
+'<UploadedFile: ... (text)>'
 """
 
 # Tests for a race condition on file saving (#4948).