She co-founded First Draft Theatre (2010-2017), for which she was also Artistic Director,[1][2][3][4] and in 2016 founded The Dot Collective, a registered charity which gives professional drama performances in care environments.
[7] In 1995, aged nine, she appeared as Anna in Morning and Evening at the Hampstead Theatre, and the same year she played the granddaughter of Belle, Scrooge's former fiancée, in an adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
[10] She then appeared in further television and film roles, including Young Sophia in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1997), Emily in Invasion: Earth (1998), Meaghan in Lost Souls (1998), Ella in Polterguests, Poppy in Casualty (1999) and Little Em'ly in David Copperfield (1999), starring Daniel Radcliffe and Maggie Smith.
[14] In 2010 Harling appeared in London as Claire in The Long Christmas Ride Home by Paula Vogel, as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Rose Theatre, Bankside, as Ascanius in Dido and Aeneas at The Actors' Church, Covent Garden, and in the one-woman play A Woman Alone by Dario Fo and Franca Rame at the Brockley Jack Theatre.
[1][2][25] Harling was awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to professional theatre in care homes and supporting people with dementia.