[1][2][3] At age 11, Forlani entered the Arts Educational School in London, where she began to study acting.

During her six years at the school, she also studied ballet, which led to performances on stage in The Nutcracker and Orpheus in the Underworld.

Forlani's parents moved to San Francisco in 1993, to allow for wider casting opportunities in Hollywood films.

Subsequently, she was cast in the television mini-series JFK: Reckless Youth[4] and the film Police Academy: Mission to Moscow.

[15] In February 2007, she portrayed Tori Bodeen in the film version of Nora Roberts's best-selling book Carolina Moon.

In 2016, the second episode of season seven of Hawaii Five-0 introduced Alicia Brown, a retired criminal profiler portrayed by Forlani.

[citation needed] In 2017, Forlani revealed that she had "escaped" Harvey Weinstein five times, including twice in a hotel, and that she had had a "disgusting" experience with the producer.