From 1985 she was a member of the Wiener Burgtheater, where she first appeared as Ophelia in William Shakespeare's Hamlet (title role Klaus Maria Brandauer; director Hans Hollmann).

In this Japanese-German co-production, she played the main female role alongside Hiroyuki Watanabe, Claus Theo Gärtner, Deborah Sasson, Stuart Wolfe, Dean Reed and Patrick Stewart.

In 1990, she received a Golden Camera Prize for three main roles in Perfume for a Suicide (La Mort a dit peut-être), The Copper Trap (Die Kupferfalle), and Dangerous Seduction (Plagio a.k.a.

She had her breakthrough with German audiences in 1992 with her role as Gudrun Lange in the ZDF - four-part series The Great Bellheim [de], for which she won the Bavarian TV Prize in 1993 and the Telestar was awarded.

In this miniseries by Dieter Wedel she acted alongside Mario Adorf, Will Quadflieg, Renan Demirkan, Heinz Hoenig, Ingrid Steeger and Dominique Horwitz.