After living there for five years, her family was forced to move to Mallorca, in the Balearic Islands (Spain) because of her father's work as a soldier.

Because of this, she left Spain and moved to New York City in order to continue to study at the School of American Ballet under Martha Graham.

She had her first role in an episode of the TV show Women: Stories of Passion and starred in two international films Tango, and The Ballad of Johnny-Jane.

After that, she did more work in TV, before making her first American film debut in Blade, in 1998, as Mercury; the vampire lover of Deacon Frost.

Shortly after arriving there, she got a major role in the film Empire of the Wolves alongside Jean Reno.