[4] Her interest in other cultures led her to visit over 20 countries including spending 3 months in a children's home in Bolivia in 2003.

She played Rosalinda Fox,[7] a young English woman who is the lover of Juan Luis Beigbeder and friend of Sira Quiroga.

New featured in a Spanish movie playing alongside David Hasselhoff in the film Brain Dead 2 in 2011.

[8] New was managed by Castro until 2012, the year she joined the cast of the Starz TV show Black Sails.

[12][3] New played Queen Leila, Princess Aurora's mother, in the Disney film Maleficent, which was released on 30 May 2014.