[1] She began her acting career in the 1999 production of the play Richard III and later made her breakthrough with the 2004 film The Corsican File.

[citation needed] She studied drama at the Scuola di Cinema e Teatro run by Francesca De Sapio, between 1999 and 2000.

[citation needed] She began her career in television in 2002,[3] and then gained international fame after playing Solange Dimitrios in the 2006 adaptation of the James Bond novel Casino Royale.

In early 2011, she co-starred with Rufus Sewell in the short-lived BBC One TV series Zen.

[4] She also starred in the video clip of the famous party band The Gypsy Queens' "l'Italiano".