Saurel grew up in Geneva, Switzerland and moved to England at the age of 14,[1] where she attended Bedales School.
[3] She took a one-year course at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York before going on to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in History and Archaeology from SOAS, University of London.
[4] Saurel portrayed Janis Joplin in Paul Desveaux's Pearl at the Abrons Arts Center in December 2015 and made her London stage debut in Labyrinth at the Hampstead Theatre in 2016.
[6][7] In 2022, she joined the cast of the HBO and BBC investment banking drama Industry for its second season as Anna Gearing.
[8] In 2024, she appeared in the BBC comedy-drama We Might Regret This[9] and has an upcoming role in the Amazon Freevee series Open Book.