She took lessons from the actress and singer Ottilie Genée and caught the interest of the director Friedrich Haase, who hired her to play Ellen Friborg in Am Spieltisch des Lebens at a guest performance in Halle in December 1894.

[1] Her first engagement was at the Hoftheater in Berlin, where she debuted as Perdita, one of the main characters in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.

The marriage was passionate but often tempestous, and in 1913 she sought a divorce in order to marry the Hungarian pianist and composer Ernst von Dohnányi.

Both Huberman and Dohnányi's first wife refused to grant their spouses a divorce, but the couple lived together in Budapest, where their son Matthew was born in 1917.

After the divorce from Dohnányi, Galafrés emigrated to Canada, where she met her third husband, the physician Clifton Stewart.