She is known for films such as Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday, Leap Year, What a Girl Wants, Made in Italy and the television programmes: Midsomer Murders, Coronation Street, Toast of Tinseltown, Drop the Dead Donkey EastEnders, Casualty, and Doctors.
Winner of the Peter Ackerman Comedy Prize in 1988 for her stage performances of Mae West in Happy as a Sandbag and Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, she worked with Sir Peter Hall for the first of four times in Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo in London's West End and took over the leading role when Julie Walters had to pull out of the production.
She has played the open air amphitheatre at Epidavros in Greece in Lysistrata and the New Victory Theatre, Broadway, New York in More Grimm Tales.
Her television appearances include Any Human Heart, Ultimate Force, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, The Bill, EastEnders, Doctors and New Tricks.
Flaminia also sat for the esteemed Portuguese born artist Paula Rego several times, including for the picture "Lush", which was part of the "Dog Woman" series, and as the Dancing Hippo in the tribute to Fantasia for the 100 year celebration of cinema held at the Southbank.