She played Grace in the American drama series Guilt, Amy Stevenson in BBC One's drama The Syndicate, Kate Bottomley in the third season of Hulu series Harlots, Genya Safin in the Netflix show Shadow and Bone, and Sofina in the film Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
She has subsequently appeared in a number of TV programmes, including Trial and Retribution, Doc Martin and Holby City.
In 2010, she made her film debut in playing Chloe Chambers in The Last Seven, alongside Danny Dyer and later that year she played Daisy in CBBC's musical film Rules of Love alongside future Rixton frontman Jake Roche.
In November 2015, it was announced that Head would take the lead role of Grace in Freeform's drama series Guilt[5] about an American student in London whose roommate is murdered.
[7][8] In 2018 Head had a supporting role in Kay Mellor's ITV drama Girlfriends which started airing in January 2018.