[8] In 2010, Pulver joined the cast of the third series of HBO's True Blood as Sookie Stackhouse's fairy godmother, Claudine Crane.

[9] Pulver played Erin Watts, the new chief of Section D, in the tenth and final series of BBC spy drama Spooks, a role she reprised in the 2015 feature film Spooks: The Greater Good Pulver played Irene Adler in "A Scandal in Belgravia", the first episode of the second series of Sherlock.

[10] Her appearance caused an "enormous" response,[11] with the Evening Standard calling the scene where she greets Sherlock Holmes nude "infamous".

[14] In 2012 she joined the cast of Da Vinci's Demons as the "seductive and politically-minded" Clarice Orsini, a series regular and wife of Elliot Cowan's character Lorenzo Medici.

[17] Pulver won the 2016 Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for the same role in the Savoy Theatre production of Gypsy.

Pulver's co-star in the Savoy production, Imelda Staunton, won the 2016 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as the larger-than-life Mama Rose.