[citation needed] Beavan's acting debut was in 1988 in the film Buster where she played the young Nicky Edwards alongside Phil Collins.
She had previously appeared in Casualty on 25 January 1997, playing the daughter of paramedic Josh Griffiths; her character died in hospital from injuries suffered in a house fire.
[20] On 28 June 2008, Beaven made another appearance in Casualty, playing a character called Sally,[21] the daughter and carer of a disabled woman who gets hit by a car.
In January 2010, she appeared in two episodes of BBC soap opera EastEnders in the role of Archie Mitchell's solicitor Emma West,[22] and in Aug 2010 she played the part of Sarah Gilligan in Holby City.
[24] In January 2012, she had a guest role alongside Marcus Patric in an episode of the BBC1 daytime soap Doctors[25] before appearing in the film Les Misérables, and the ITV series Endeavour the following year.
After that she focused her career on theatre for the rest of the decade, but in 2022, she appeared on TV for the first time in 9 years in an episode of BBC comedy drama This Is Going To Hurt.