Goursaud was born in Pinneberg district[1] north of Hamburg in Schleswig-Holstein, to a German mother and a French father.

Goursaud made her English-language debut in 2015 when she played the recurring character Emma in season 2 of the Australian children's series In Your Dreams on 7two.

[3] She played Rebecca Jungblut in the Das Erste series Hubert ohne Staller.

In 2020, Goursaud began portraying the real-life Cheruscan noblewoman Thusnelda in the Netflix historical war drama Barbarians.

[8][9] She then starred as Jazz in Para – We Are King on Warner TV in 2021[10] and Jenny Krause in the British thriller The Chemistry of Death, an adaptation of the novel by Simon Beckett for Paramount+ in 2023.