She is known for her roles in Home and Away as Matilda Hunter, H2O: Just Add Water as Bella Hartley, and Blue Lagoon: The Awakening as Emmaline Robinson.

She portrayed Matilda Hunter, a privileged teenage girl who is forced to move to the Summer Bay Caravan Park.

That same year, Evans replaced Claire Holt as one of the three leads on the Network Ten Children television series H2O: Just Add Water.

In August 2010, Evans made her feature-film debut in the Australian disaster film Arctic Blast, playing the character Naomi Tate.

In November 2010, Evans was cast as a regular in the ABC1 Legal Drama television series Crownies, which centres around a group of solicitors fresh from law school working for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution.

[4][5] In February 2012, Evans signed on to play the female lead role in the 2012 Lifetime television film Blue Lagoon: The Awakening, alongside fellow Australian actor Brenton Thwaites, who also appeared on Home and Away.