Berloff is best known for writing the screenplays for the drama films World Trade Center and Straight Outta Compton, receiving an Academy Award nomination for the latter.
In 1997, she played the role of the nameless sister in the Tisch School of the Arts produced film Growth, directed by Joel Hopkins.
[7] In 2001, Berloff was cast in a minor role as a popular high school girl for the short film Eyeball Eddie, directed by Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum.
[8] In 2005, Berloff acted as the executive producer and played the role of Dr. Schwartz in the independent film Raw Footage, directed by Drew Filus.
The film starred Nicolas Cage and Michael Peña as two policeman who were trapped in the rubble after the attacks on the World Trade Center during 9/11.
The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles reported that when writing the script, Berloff described that she did not want to create another disaster movie or epic film about American patriotism.
[14] In 2006, Empire reported that she had been hired to write the screenplay for Ridley Scott's upcoming biopic on the Italian fashion designer Aldo Gucci.
[17] In 2015, Berloff co-wrote the screenplay for the biographical drama Straight Outta Compton, directed by F. Gary Gray, which depicted the rise and fall of the popular rap group N.W.A.
[21][22][23] In 2015, Empire reported that Berloff, along with story writer Nicolas Saada, was hired to write the screenplay for the film Sleepless, directed by Baran bo Odar.
Sleepless Night is set to release in 2016 and will starr Jamie Foxx as a cop whose family comes in danger after he betrays his connections in the criminal underworld.
[21] She was also nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay along with Herman, S. Leigh Savidge and Alan Wenkus.