In 1940, she traveled to Santiago to study Spanish at the Pedagogical Institute [es] of the University of Chile, where she joined the theater group Cadip.

[4] Then, along with other young artists led by Pedro de la Barra, she founded the Experimental Theater of the University of Chile [es] in 1941.

[4] Having retired from the Theater of the University of Chile, she and Alejandro Sieveking formed their own company, El Teatro del Ángel.

In 2007 she was nominated for the Altazor Award for Best Actress in Theater for her role in the play Cabeza de ovni,[6] and won it in 2013 for Todo pasajero debe descender.

[10] In 2010, she returned to the big screen in the Sebastián Silva film Old Cats, along with her husband Alejandro Sieveking, Claudia Celedón, and Catalina Saavedra.