[3] She played Dorothy Walcott in season 2 of the Cinemax drama The Knick.

[5] On July 13, 2018, it was revealed that she would not be returning for season three, leaving for the opportunity to direct a feature film.

[7] It premiered to critical acclaim, described as "a sharp, affecting film that's brimming with darkness and hope, every instant of it vividly alive," by The Hollywood Reporter,[8] and named one of Variety's Best Movies of SXSW.

[9] The Washington Post called the film "one of the most exciting breakout films of the year",[10] and RogerEbert.com sang the movie's praises, calling it "an almost perfectly realized drama that feels as if it was time-warped in from 40 or 50 years ago, in the tradition of great American cinema chamber pieces like 'The Last Picture Show,' 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore,' 'The Great Santini,' and more recently, 'Winter's Bone'.

Attanasio wrote, directed, and starred in a short film called Frankie Keeps Talking.