[3] She is best known for playing Suzanne in The Sea Wall, the mermaid Syrena in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Sofi in I Origins.

She received the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti in 2009 and the Trophée Chopard Award for Female Revelation of the Year at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and a nomination at the 2016 David di Donatello in Rome.

[8] Bergès-Frisbey made her English-language debut in 2011 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,[7] earning the role of the mermaid Syrena,[9] after a whirlwind of auditions in France, Hollywood, and the UK.

[11] In 2012, Bergès-Frisbey starred in the Spanish film El sexo de los ángeles.

She learned to speak Italian for the movie Alaska (2015), which earned her a nomination for the David di Donatello for Best Actress.