She made her stage debut in the Children's theater of Anders Selinder.
She was a popular and talented ballerina, but was affected by gout to such a degree that she was forced to retire in 1839.
She made her debut as an actress at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, and was regarded to have displayed good talent, but was not considered to live up to the expectations.
From 1845 until her death, she was engaged as an actress at the Mindre teatern, a theater more frequented by the wider public than the royal stage and where she enjoyed great and widespread popularity among both audience and critics.
[1] However, Charlotte Lindmark suffered severely from deteriorating health in parallel to her stage success, but still continued to work hard despite her activity contributing to her illness, which was described by J. C. Hellberg: Charlotte Lindmark died of "chest pains" on the top of a very successful career in 1858.