She made her feature film debut in The Neon Demon (2016) and has since acted in Queen & Slim (2019), After Yang (2022), and White Noise (2022).

[3] After her parents divorced, she immigrated to the United States with her mother, brother and half-sister, residing in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

[4] Turner-Smith studied finance at the University of Pittsburgh; she graduated in 2008 and subsequently worked at a bank.

[7][8] She made her acting debut in 2013 as a siren in True Blood,[8] which led to numerous minor roles in films and music videos between 2013 and 2017.

[11][12] She played Josie in the Cinemax series Jett, which premiered in June 2019,[13] and starred in the 2019 film Queen & Slim opposite Daniel Kaluuya.

[23] In June 2023, it was announced that Turner-Smith would join the cast of Tron: Ares alongside Jared Leto.