Her television roles include miniseries The Runaway, The Take, Luther, and The Shadow Line.
She starred in Ken Loach's film It's a Free World... as Angie, an ambitious recruitment agent.
[2] Her other credits include Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank (2009) and Martina Cole's The Take.
She played the character Heather in Channel 4's Top Boy and joined the cast of BBC soap opera EastEnders in 2012, making her first appearance as Kirsty Branning on 25 December 2012.
Wareing joined the cast of Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks in 2015 as villainess Ashley Davidson[4] with her first episode airing on 7 September 2015.