Born in Vilvoorde, Belgium, she spent her early childhood in the African nations of Kenya, Uganda and Sudan.
She also majored in economics and philosophy, and minored in film science at the Amsterdam University, where she joined the Amsterdam student theater group and convincingly showed her talent for acting in several plays with the production company.
She made her motion picture debut in 2004 playing the female lead in the film Snowfever.
She hosted the Dutch National TV channel BNN's weekly music show Top of the Pops.
[citation needed] Outside of the Netherlands she is perhaps best known for her role starring alongside Rob Schneider in the 2005 sequel Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.