While Anna was a child, her Danish mother worked in a theatre with disabled people.

[1] After finishing high school she financed her early drama and vocal training by doing odd jobs.

In 2007 she got her first acting roles at the Summer Festival in Kottingbrunn as Helena in the Pirate and the Daughter and in Friedrich Dürrenmatt's The Visit.

In 2009, while working at Salzburger Landestheater, she took over the roles of Recha in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Nathan the Wise, The Lord in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Peppi in Johann Nestroy's The Evil Spirit Lumpacivagabundus, and Evelyn in Neil Labute's The Measure of All Things.

In October 2012 she portrayed Minna in the film adaptation of Daniel Kehlmann's Measuring the World.